{"id":117,"date":"2023-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2023-04-08T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:32:39","slug":"the-emotional-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/the-emotional-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emotional Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The reason I call this painting the Emotional Painting is because it has a big, black streak down the middle, symbolizing the hurt, and hatred and darkness that can lie beneath the happy, calm person on the outside. Yet the two shades of pink I used right next to the black streak symbolizes the love and friendship that always is close, even when you&#8217;re in your darkest hour. You might think that it&#8217;s sort of a dark thing for a 9-year-old to be thinking about, the darkness in someone&#8217;s heart, but it&#8217;s really not all that surprising to me. I mean, I&#8217;m sometimes one to point out problems that you can&#8217;t do much to fix, but this seems to be a common problem. I mean, our world isn&#8217;t always what it&#8217;s cracked up to be. Some people think it&#8217;s a Candyland with mostly happiness, which is true most of the time. But it can also be a horrible, dark place, like in times of war, or when your country or home is having trouble making a decision. Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to figure out what the world really is. But step by step, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, you figure it out. I already have. It&#8217;s a place to find yourself. To see who you are. To just\u2026 Live. That&#8217;s what I think the purpose of life is.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1856\" height=\"2944\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheEmotionalPainting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason I call this painting the Emotional Painting is because it has a big, black streak down the middle, symbolizing the hurt, and hatred and darkness that can lie beneath the happy, calm person on the outside. Yet the two shades of pink I used right next to the black streak symbolizes the love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[40,34,36,70,33],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-carolyn","tag-emotional","tag-painting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}