{"id":238,"date":"2017-01-18T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=238"},"modified":"2017-01-22T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T20:28:40","slug":"chinese-peonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2017\/01\/chinese-peonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese peonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the privilege of attending a Chinese brush painting workshop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpeonyacademy.com\/en\/\">(Jack) Jiang Hongsheng<\/a> is currently artist in residence in the library at work and offered a workshop to staff who were interested. Craftiness in work time! I leapt at it as you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>So this afternoon I spent two hours learning how to paint a peony in the Chinese style.<\/p>\n<p>He was a good teacher and I was delighted at what I managed. I came last in art at school all those years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-239\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017.png\" alt=\"Two Chinese Peonies\" width=\"393\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017.png 1818w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017-150x140.png 150w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017-768x716.png 768w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TwoPeoniesJan18th2017-1024x955.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been really struggling with my mojo for making cards in the last couple of weeks so now I feel really inspired and invigorated! Thanks, Jack.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the privilege of attending a Chinese brush painting workshop. (Jack) Jiang Hongsheng is currently artist in residence in the library at work and offered a workshop to staff who were interested. Craftiness in work time! I leapt at it as you can imagine. So this afternoon I spent two hours learning how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,46],"tags":[48,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}