{"id":271,"date":"2013-09-16T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=271"},"modified":"2014-01-03T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T02:23:26","slug":"bonsai-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/bonsai-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonsai Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: .5em; width: 200px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestart.php?id=13294\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bonsai Spirit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/th04.deviantart.net\/fs70\/200H\/f\/2014\/003\/6\/5\/bonsai_spirit_web_by_metasilk-d70q206.jpg?w=770\"\/><br \/><cite>Bonsai Spirit<\/cite><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestgallery.php?date=40\">Sketchfest #40<\/a>, prompt &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestprompt.php?prompt=11266\">Bonsai Dryad<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Watercolor on Arches cold press. Four inches by four inches. Original for sale via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestart.php?id=13294\">Sketchfest site<\/a>, $25 (10% goes to Sketchfest support). Signature on front is blurry, so signed on back also.<\/p>\n<p>Art copyright \u00a9 2013 Kirsten Talmage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonsai Spirit For Sketchfest #40, prompt &#8220;Bonsai Dryad&#8220;. Watercolor on Arches cold press. Four inches by four inches. Original for sale via Sketchfest site, $25 (10% goes to Sketchfest support). Signature on front is blurry, so signed on back also. Art copyright \u00a9 2013 Kirsten Talmage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[188,190,5,89,25,189,43],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-bonsai","tag-dryad","tag-mythical","tag-oswoa","tag-sketchfest","tag-spirit","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/transform\/","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":0},"title":"Transform","author":"Kir","date":"9 September 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"TransformFor Sketchfest #40, prompt \"Owl Princess\".This isn't what I expected either. 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