{"id":679,"date":"2014-01-26T10:18:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2014-01-26T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:18:48","slug":"the-valley-at-sunset-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"The Valley at Sunset Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Valley on Xmas Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a person stopped by and asked me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you want to see better view?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure what he ment. But I said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Then he told me that he own the property bihind me. He ask me whenever I want to see the view of the top of the hill, I can call him to take me there.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after, I went to there and called him. The property is a ranch. And the edge of the property is the top of the hill.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_680\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/valleysunsettime.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-680\" title=\" The valley at sunset time\" alt=\"valleysunsettime\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/valleysunsettime-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;659. The valley at Sunset Time&#8221; Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Can you see the white fence on this painting bottom? I painted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Valley on Xmas Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breath taking from the top. First hour I just stared and enjoyed the view. I told myself that my painting panel was too small.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After I finish this painting fot that day, when I was driving by their house, his wife wearing cowboy hat was walking towards my car with their dog. We chatted. It was a nice greeting. She continued to walk toward the hill in the sunset. It was a beautiful scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you like this painting as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Valley on Xmas Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a person stopped by and asked me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you want to see better view?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure what he ment. But I said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then he told me that he own the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=679\">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-679","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\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}