{"id":1120,"date":"2012-04-03T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2016-01-25T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T04:44:51","slug":"birdsong-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Birdsong in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birdsong-copy-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birdsong-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"birdsong-copy\" width=\"900\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birdsong-copy-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birdsong-copy-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m starting to see signs of spring. Birds hopping everywhere, buds welling up on spindly branches, light-filled leaves. I wanted to write something on this art journal page, but all my words have already been penned by Wendell Berry! Every time I pick up his book, &#8220;A Timbered Choir,&#8221; I am drawn in by the presence of the simple enjoyment of nature, the delight in birdsong and leaves and the course of the seasons. After a rough day, it was good to finally break the painting hiatus with this page.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t read any of Wendell Berry&#8217;s poems? <a href=\"http:\/\/treesclaphands.blogspot.ca\/2009\/01\/sabbath-poem-by-wendell-berry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here <\/a>is the one that inspired the name of my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to see signs of spring. Birds hopping everywhere, buds welling up on spindly branches, light-filled leaves. I wanted to write something on this art journal page, but all my words have already been penned by Wendell Berry! Every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1120\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[59,111,638,722,995],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-nature-2","tag-a-timbered-choir","tag-art-journal","tag-mixed-media","tag-painting","tag-wendell-berry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}