{"id":510,"date":"2009-08-10T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-08-10T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:49:00","slug":"my-sisters-birthday-or-august-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"My Sister&#8217;s Birthday &#8212; or &quot;August 10th&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SoBzBXJKW9I\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/xxDk-F_zueA\/s1600-h\/edie0810.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SoBzBXJKW9I\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/xxDk-F_zueA\/s400\/edie0810.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Yes, it&#8217;s already August 10 &#8212; summertime blues are making it hard for me to write &#8212; I have my blocks, and haven&#8217;t done much with my book or women&#8217;s group lately.<\/p>\n<p>But, I did get out today to <a href=\"http:\/\/edithvonnegut.com\/index.html\">Edie Vonnegut&#8217;s<\/a> open studio in Barnstable and enjoyed chatting with her. My sister bought me a signed copy of her domestic goddess book for my birthday several years ago. It&#8217;s a favorite from my goddess dancing days and middle motherhood. A friend I thought had moved to New Mexico is sharing an incredible schoolhouse studio with Edie.<\/p>\n<p>It was a place I&#8217;ve been to in my dreams and now for real. The old windows were wide open to the harbor&#8217;s breeze, the light fixtures were straight out of the 1930&#8217;s (I&#8217;m just guessing, could even be earlier), and it reminded me of how much I love old schoolhouses &#8212; they have an airiness and openness to the outside world and nature that is key for my learning process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed in the more modern schools, the classrooms and windows almost seem to suffocate, rather than open minds. I used to have a hard time going back to my old high school when my kids were attending, and could not blame my son for opting out with the <a href=\"http:\/\/gracellewellyn.com\/index.htm\">Teenage Liberation Handbook.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SoB0bq18lrI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/k3QEFJer6Nk\/s1600-h\/teenage+lib.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SoB0bq18lrI\/AAAAAAAAAHE\/k3QEFJer6Nk\/s400\/teenage+lib.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>** book image from Amazon, Edie image my own taken today in her studio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s already August 10 &#8212; summertime blues are making it hard for me to write &#8212; I have my blocks, and haven&#8217;t done much with my book or women&#8217;s group lately. But, I did get out today to Edie Vonnegut&#8217;s open studio in Barnstable and enjoyed chatting with her. My sister bought me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Sister&#8217;s Birthday &#8212; or &quot;August 10th&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}