{"id":250,"date":"2012-03-21T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorigraydon.wordpress.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2012-03-21T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:47:32","slug":"sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a portrait of Sam, a dog I haven\u2019t met (yet). This often happens in animal portraiture. Sometimes it\u2019s due to the location of the subject, other times because the animal is sadly no longer with us. In those situations I have no choice but to work from photographs. It\u2019s actually easier on the animal working from a photo because they hate to pose, but it\u2019s nice to meet them to get a sense of their personality. By doing this the portrait becomes more than just &#8220;my&#8221; interpretation gathered from a photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sam-sigc2a9-for-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sam-sigc2a9-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"sam-sig-for-blog\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sam-sigc2a9-for-blog.jpg 634w, https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sam-sigc2a9-for-blog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a portrait of Sam, a dog I haven\u2019t met (yet). This often happens in animal portraiture. Sometimes it\u2019s due to the location of the subject, other times because the animal is sadly no longer with us. In those situations I have no choice but to work from photographs. It\u2019s actually easier on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,53,54,57,65,67,69,70,80,81],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-dog-portrait","tag-dogs","tag-entertainment","tag-life","tag-pet-portraits","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-water-color","tag-water-colour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorigraydon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}