{"id":6981,"date":"2025-12-16T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:14:17","slug":"day-16-checking-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/day-16-checking-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 16: Checking it twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 16 of <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/hashtag\/ArtAdventCalendar\">#ArtAdventCalendar<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/zesmerelda.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>, my husband often asks why I&#8217;m taking pictures at odd moments. And then he sees the painting. And sighs.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, in my first art show, this was the painting that got the most reactions. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s what people expect to see, and I kinda like that about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Checking it twice&#8221;<br \/>\nWatercolor 9.5&#215;7.5<br \/>\nDecember 2024<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-fusion-400 wp-image-6982\" src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-400x331.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-400x331.jpg\" alt=\"Watercolor of my husband shopping at the grocery store. There's a wall of poinsettias in the background and some strange lady with a cart.\" width=\"400\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27331%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20331%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27331%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-200x166.jpg 200w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-400x331.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-600x497.jpg 600w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice-800x662.jpg 800w, https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/checkingittwice.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, my husband often asks why I&#8217;m taking pictures at odd moments. And then he sees the painting. And sighs. BTW, in my first art show, this was the painting that got the most reactions. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s what people expect to see, and I kinda like that about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","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=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}