{"id":163,"date":"2012-02-06T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:32:52","slug":"imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/imagine.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165 \" title=\"Imagine_Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Imagine_Blog1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Imagine\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">450. Imagine Watercolor Painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He put salad bowl on his head. What is he imagining?<\/p>\n<p>He is only two years old, so he has been in this world for only two years. He watches, remembers and copies with his imagination. What a wonderful world, he is living.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that Louis Armstrong sings the colorful song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What A Wonderful World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<p>I see trees of green\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..red roses too<\/p>\n<p>I see I&#8217;m bloom\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.. for me and for you<\/p>\n<p>And I think to myself\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what a wonderful world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After I named this painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Imagine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>John Lennon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Imagine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d came to my mind.<\/p>\n<p>You, you may say<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a dreamer, but I&#8217;m not the only one<\/p>\n<p>I hope some day you&#8217;ll join us<\/p>\n<p>And the world will be as one<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for stopping by my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave your message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He put salad bowl on his head. What is he imagining? He is only two years old, so he has been in this world for only two years. He watches, remembers and copies with his imagination. What a wonderful world, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}