{"id":1923,"date":"2018-06-07T14:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T18:07:45","slug":"wallflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wallflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Wallflower by Janie Cao\r\nEdited by Mary Abramczuk\r\n\r\nTwo Novembers ago, I decided to try painting again. At that point, I had been studying medicine for a little over 2 years. After browsing YouTube\u2019s collection of painting tutorials, I found one that seemed realistic for me. It was a still life of roses.\r\n\r\nThere's a common saying--\u00a0 <em>\"stop and smell the roses.\"<\/em> Have you heard of it? It suggests a world that is riddled with roses. I wish that was the world we lived in.\r\n\r\nIn those years being surrounded by scientific medicine, I think I was learning this: sometimes by the time you arrive, the roses have all been picked. Then it's up to you to create beauty, again, from the ashes.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1925\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1925 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2-894x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2-894x1024.jpg 894w, https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2-768x879.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_5089-2.jpg 1909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallflower by Janie Cao \/\/ 11.24.2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>PC:\u00a0<a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to TonalLuminosity's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tonalluminosity\/\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\" data-rapid_p=\"56\">TonalLuminosity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallflower by Janie Cao Edited by Mary Abramczuk Two Novembers ago, I decided to try painting again. At that point, I had been studying medicine for a little over 2 years. After browsing YouTube\u2019s collection of painting tutorials, I found one that seemed realistic for me. It was a still life of roses. There&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[201,1,492,14,11],"tags":[489,490,491],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themspress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}