{"id":1819,"date":"2014-03-29T06:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2016-01-23T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T18:21:51","slug":"sometimes-i-pick-up-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I pick up pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst.jpg\" alt=\"sunburst\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst-730x730.jpg 730w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sunburst-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>I am&#8211;and have always been&#8211;the person picking up pods from the corner of the playground while others race around or jump rope. I am the mom arranging stones on the riverside while the other adults are&#8230;well&#8230;not knee deep in mud. One of the down sides of being creative is being conspicuous. I remember a friend I went to see one time in Toronto telling me to &#8220;quit picking&#8221; as I scoured the beach.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, I was waiting while the children played on a playground, and I spotted a big piece of styrofoam. All around it were <strong><em>these<\/em><\/strong>. These pods. I was impressed by the diverse patterns and colours present in the wood, all from one tree. <em>Teal<\/em>, black freckles, gray lines, brown patches. The insides of pods that had been fermenting there all winter. I had to bring them home. I had to explain to a new acquaintance why I was carrying a pail of musty pods.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m an artist. Sometimes I pick up pods.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pods.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pods.jpg\" alt=\"pods\" width=\"1000\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pods.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pods-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pods-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am&#8211;and have always been&#8211;the person picking up pods from the corner of the playground while others race around or jump rope. I am the mom arranging stones on the riverside while the other adults are&#8230;well&#8230;not knee deep in mud. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1819\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,35,37],"tags":[327,334,335,337,354,451,669,742,755,759],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","category-nature-2","category-photography-2","tag-creative","tag-creative-people","tag-creative-process","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-found-objects","tag-nature","tag-pattern","tag-plants","tag-pods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}