{"id":5482,"date":"2015-04-01T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2015-04-01T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T01:36:55","slug":"essence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/essence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EyeOnYouCR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EyeOnYouCR.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eye On You\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EyeOnYouCR.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EyeOnYouCR-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The Call: Eye Cannot Explain \u2014 Cheryl<\/h6>\n<p>It seems like a great deal of my life has been centered around explaining who I am or what I mean. Being understood was of the utmost importance to me. Now, it&#8217;s not. I once read something like, &#8220;If an artist could express himself in words, he wouldn&#8217;t need to paint.&#8221; I&#8217;ve decided that expressing oneself is the essence of art, but it has nothing to do with explaining.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fascinating new way of looking at my work, at myself, and at my relationships with others. In college, I had to read a poem or novel and explain it. As a reporter, I had to interview a person and then explain him or her to my audience. My role as parent involves a great deal of explaining. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m now comfortable calling myself an artist because I&#8217;ve finally learned that there are times when trying to explain is the worst thing one can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call: Eye Cannot Explain \u2014 Cheryl It seems like a great deal of my life has been centered around explaining who I am or what I mean. Being understood was of the utmost importance to me. Now, it&#8217;s not. I once read something like, &#8220;If an artist could express himself in words, he wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,1359,1361,1360,1131],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-explanation","tag-eye","tag-intuition","tag-multiple-exposure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D42d-1qq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5488,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}