{"id":6921,"date":"2025-12-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:25:13","slug":"art-advent-calendar-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/art-advent-calendar-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1: Let Freedom Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/hashtag\/ArtAdventCalendar\">#ArtAdventCalendar<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/zesmerelda.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a> to get more of my stuff out into the world. Not the best picture of this piece, but hey it&#8217;s fun!<\/p>\n<p>This was inspired by a roadside fireworks stand that had a big blue gorilla shouting into the void while being anchored to the ground. I want to say it was at least 20 feet tall in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Let freedom ring<br \/>\nAcrylic on canvas, 11&#8243;x13&#8243;<br \/>\nJuly 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-fusion-400 wp-image-6922\" src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-400x414.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-400x414.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Blue Gorilla screams &quot;Let Freedom Ring!&quot; while being tethered to the ground.\" width=\"400\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27414%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20414%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27414%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-200x207.jpg 200w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-400x414.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-600x621.jpg 600w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-768x795.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-800x828.jpg 800w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-990x1024.jpg 990w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/letfreedomring-1485x1536.jpg 1485w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky to get more of my stuff out into the world. Not the best picture of this piece, but hey it&#8217;s fun! This was inspired by a roadside fireworks stand that had a big blue gorilla shouting into the void while being anchored to the ground. I want to say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}