{"id":828,"date":"2017-04-08T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/?p=828"},"modified":"2017-04-08T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:55:20","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2017\/04\/spring-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here, and hibernation time is definitely over! \u00a0More art and ideas coming soon!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-824\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"824\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2017\/04\/spring-is-here\/20120728_021-resized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?fit=2000%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S620&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1343459178&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20120728_021-resized\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Somewhere hard to get to in the Adirondacks, New York &amp;#8230;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C180\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?fit=1024%2C614\" class=\"size-large wp-image-824\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized-1024x614.jpg?resize=525%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?resize=1024%2C614 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?resize=300%2C180 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?resize=768%2C461 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20120728_021-resized.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somewhere hard to get to in the Adirondacks, New York &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is here, and hibernation time is definitely over! \u00a0More art and ideas coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[112,52],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-adirondacks","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zpKF-dm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"http:\/\/azelvandre.net\/artistseye\/2015\/01\/studio-notes-the-landscape-evolves\/","url_meta":{"origin":828,"position":0},"title":"Studio Notes &#8211; the landscape evolves","author":"John Azelvandre","date":"January 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As a sort of journalistic experiment, I'm going to follow the development of my recently started Paysage plan\u00e9taire painting through several blog posts. \u00a0This should be interesting, and maybe\u00a0disastrous, since I don't know how the painting is\u00a0going to turn out. 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