{"id":986,"date":"2010-06-02T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2010-06-02T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:49:24","slug":"my-daughter-the-artist-paranoid-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter, The Artist. Paranoid Artist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When 5yr old E plays with crayons, I watch in fascination as her inner artist emerges.\u00a0 She takes 6 crayons at once and tucks each one between the fingers of her left hand, while coloring with one in the right.\u00a0 When she needs to switch colors she never puts one down, she just tucks it behind a different finger and chooses a different color.\u00a0 It is exactly what I&#8217;ve seen artists do with multiple paint brushes.<\/p>\n<p>The other day at dinner I comment on this to Kerry.\u00a0 &#8220;You know why she does that, right?&#8221; she asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t want anyone to take her crayons if she puts them down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realize that she&#8217;s correct.\u00a0 Oh well, I like my interpretation better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 5yr old E plays with crayons, I watch in fascination as her inner artist emerges.\u00a0 She takes 6 crayons at once and tucks each one between the fingers of her left hand, while coloring with one in the right.\u00a0 When she needs to switch colors she never puts one down, she just tucks it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}