{"id":2112,"date":"2020-03-25T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:27:33","slug":"24th-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/24th-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"24th March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"jsc_c_34\" class=\"ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\">\n<div class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg\">\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lockdown-ish day 1&#8230;..the morning has almost gone, and I have been as always painting, just outside the front door is a sheltered veranda with a glass roof where I set up two tables for all the stuff I use. No one about. Usually there is always some background noise&#8230;.some thing&#8230; some annoying engine, ship engines, aircraft engines, tractor engines&#8230;.lot&#8217;s of aircraft&#8230;cars always bloody cars&#8230;.and on an Island I can cycle round in 20 minutes&#8230;..it is ridiculous.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">But today is different, I remember when air traffic was shut down during Iceland&#8217;s volcanic eruptions&#8230;.at first it took a while to notice that there were for a short time no aircraft vapor trails scaring the sky, once I had noticed I just could not stop looking at that sky&#8230;..it was quite wonderful&#8230;..actually it was sublime.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230;And today in beautiful sunshine spending the whole morning painting not a cloud in the sky&#8230;.and the only sounds I hear are the sounds of nature. The bird song is utterly sublime&#8230;it echoes from place to place&#8230;.it is wonderful. I cannot describe how wonderful it is to simply only hear nature&#8230;&#8230;without that constant and incessant background noise&#8230;&#8230;I hate that noise&#8230;..we cannot&#8230;must not go back to how things were, it is simply wrong&#8230;..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockdown-ish day 1&#8230;..the morning has almost gone, and I have been as always painting, just outside the front door is a sheltered veranda with a glass roof where I set up two tables for all the stuff I use. No one about. Usually there is always some background noise&#8230;.some thing&#8230; some annoying engine, ship engines, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}