{"id":1886,"date":"2019-10-23T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:14:00","slug":"1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mermaid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1957M-735x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1887\" width=\"402\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1957M-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1957M-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1957M-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1957M.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember part of a song from my childhood, about a boy who longed to find a mermaid. Roughly translated:<br> &#8220;I think fishermen go to sea<br> to listen and hear the song<br> of the silky long-haired mermaid<br> and I think that she did sing for them&#8230;&#8221;<br> Those words came in my head at Port Mulgrave, standing on the shore on a late afternoon, and it inspired this little painting. It was started years ago  with colour pencils, it was very soft and gentle. This is a recent  reworking with transparent acrylic inks, a much bolder impact. But  really it&#8217;s all about that song, and the feeling of being a child on a  windy beach, evening, waves&#8230; There is magic in the sea, and there may be mermaids.<br> Mermaid. Acrylic inks over coloured pencils. 19x28cm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mermaid I remember part of a song from my childhood, about a boy who longed to find a mermaid. Roughly translated: &#8220;I think fishermen go to sea to listen and hear the song of the silky long-haired mermaid and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/?p=1886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clothylde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}