{"id":11208,"date":"2016-10-19T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:07:32","slug":"ceramic-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"Ceramic Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11210\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161019_132149.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11210\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161019_132149-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic Bear\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11210\" data-wp-pid=\"11210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161019_132149-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161019_132149-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161019_132149.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceramic Bear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really much of an artist. In particular, I&#8217;m not much of a sculptor. But back in the day (I don&#8217;t know for sure but certainly not later than the 1970s) I attempted a small figurine of a bear eating honey, a la Winnie The Pooh. It&#8217;s a bit crude and certainly won&#8217;t win any awards for life-likeness. On the other hand, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say I bet you could tell what it was without being told. So, that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often admired sculptors and their ability to fashion clay, stone, or metal into such wonderful imitations of life. I think that&#8217;s one of the things I like best about Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. The fact that the sculpture is in such a beautiful setting makes a difference, too, of course. Could I do any better than this bear if I really tried? Possibly. But possibly we&#8217;ll never find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really much of an artist. In particular, I&#8217;m not much of a sculptor. But back in the day (I don&#8217;t know for sure but certainly not later than the 1970s) I attempted a small figurine of a bear eating honey, a la Winnie The Pooh. It&#8217;s a bit crude and certainly won&#8217;t win &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11211,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}