{"id":6035,"date":"2016-04-26T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2016-04-26T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:12:02","slug":"in-the-studio-42616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/in-the-studio-42616\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 4\/26\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long hiatus, I worked on Washington Square Park<\/em> again. How many times have I reworked the background?  Well, are you going to tell me or not?<\/p>\n

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‘Washington Square Park’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OK, it’s been A LOT.  That didn’t stop me from working on it again.  Most things are done or really, really close.  I’ve done this–obsessively reworking–before, many times. I can’t let it go until things are right.  Right, in this context, means some things are sufficiently detailed while other things are sufficiently vague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long hiatus, I worked on Washington Square Park again. How many times have I reworked the background?  Well, are you going to tell me or not? OK, it’s been A LOT.  That didn’t stop me from working on it again.  Most things are done or really, really close.  I’ve done this–obsessively reworking–before, many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[9,271],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-studio","tag-paintings-2","tag-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/studio-2016-4-24-b.jpg?fit=600%2C545&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5616,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/in-the-studio-111515\/","url_meta":{"origin":6035,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 11\/15\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been under the weather for several days and haven't painted much. 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