{"id":381,"date":"2007-12-24T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2007-12-24T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T19:52:13","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sscn0036.JPG\" title=\"sscn0036.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sscn0036.JPG\" alt=\"sscn0036.JPG\" height=\"176\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 176px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sscn0037.JPG\" title=\"sscn0037.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sscn0037.JPG\" alt=\"sscn0037.JPG\" height=\"173\" style=\"width: 130px; height: 173px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lane-allen-_17.jpg\" title=\"lane-allen-_17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lane-allen-_17.jpg\" alt=\"lane-allen-_17.jpg\" height=\"196\" style=\"width: 155px; height: 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deck them halls with books of comics! Cathy and I painted last week at the home of Brenda Swenson, famous watercolorist and author of a Walter Foster book, in South Pasadena. Although rain threatened, none fell. About 30 painters showed up to do studies of the old neighborhood\u00c2\u00a0houses and the South Pas. water tower.\u00c2\u00a0Brenda has a small collection of\u00c2\u00a0antique truck bodies in her back yard that proved to be cooperative painting subjects! She served great bowls of steaming bishop, plum pudding, hog jowls, chitlin&#8217;s and chestnuts! (I&#8217;m only serious.) I prefer hot Tom n&#8217; Jerry, but it&#8217;s scarce in these parts. Cathy did a charming oil of Brenda&#8217;s front porch with wreath and poinsettia plant, I did the neighbor&#8217;s house with dark bougainvillea in the foreground. The light was very touch and go due to the shifting cloud cover. Have a peaceful and joyous Holiday season, everyone! By the way, there&#8217;s only one more episode of Lane Allen&#8217;s Diary, then maybe someone will step up with more of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deck them halls with books of comics! Cathy and I painted last week at the home of Brenda Swenson, famous watercolorist and author of a Walter Foster book, in South Pasadena. Although rain threatened, none fell. About 30 painters showed up to do studies of the old neighborhood\u00c2\u00a0houses and the South Pas. water tower.\u00c2\u00a0Brenda has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comment-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}