{"id":3300,"date":"2006-07-18T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T06:01:25","slug":"closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/books-on-shelf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4855 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/books-on-shelf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"books on shelf\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/books-on-shelf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/books-on-shelf-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/books-on-shelf.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Do you ever feel lonely after finishing a book? Either reading or writing one? I always do. Perhaps it&#8217;s because I read such long books. I finally read Dickens &#8220;The Old Curiosity Shop.&#8221; I don&#8217;t recommend it &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t that good &#8211; but the character development was good enough that I miss the people. It&#8217;s hard to switch gears into a new story.<\/p>\n<p>I have a similar feeling about the drawing class I just finished. Last night we went out to the arts club, and I found myself sitting with a new mom, an artist (the teacher) and a writer. It just occurred to me that it was like sitting in the fork of my own path. I could go any or all of those directions. I got so much consolation just listening to their perspectives on life and society. It was exactly where I needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>A 180 from where I was on Sunday. &#8220;Remind me&#8230;why do we need people?&#8221; I guess contrived socialization sometimes grates the introvert. People often encourage me to involve my art more in our community, so I decided to work on my charcoal drawing at the beach. I almost got hit by 4 frisbees and a softball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel lonely after finishing a book? Either reading or writing one? I always do. Perhaps it&#8217;s because I read such long books. I finally read Dickens &#8220;The Old Curiosity Shop.&#8221; I don&#8217;t recommend it &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=3300\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,28],"tags":[301,607,802,943],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-communication","tag-community","tag-loneliness","tag-reading","tag-the-old-curiosity-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}