{"id":7685,"date":"2018-02-18T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2018-02-18T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:46:13","slug":"turpentine-diaries-2-18-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/turpentine-diaries-2-18-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 2\/18\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Playhouse Square work.  This one is creatively titled Trip to Playhouse Square<\/em>.  This (still) unfinished painting is 40″ x 50.”  I like the size and recently ordered enough stretchers for 9 paintings sizes 40″ x 52″ and 40 x 56.”<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Yesterday, I walked downtown by the lake and someone nearly hit me with their car.  First, they carelessly backed in front of me and then, when I tried to walk around them, almost ran me over.  He was an older man.  These days, you run into many older people–grownups–either on\/off their meds or outright high.  Something bad is happening in America.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Playhouse Square work.  This one is creatively titled Trip to Playhouse Square.  This (still) unfinished painting is 40″ x 50.”  I like the size and recently ordered enough stretchers for 9 paintings sizes 40″ x 52″ and 40 x 56.” Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsYesterday, I walked downtown by the lake and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7684,"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":[6,19,343,1,13],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries","category-uncategorized","category-vermilion_oh","tag-playhouse-square-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-18.png?fit=800%2C1061&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7699,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/turpentine-diaries-2-25-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":7685,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 2\/25\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished Three Women in Sandals (I know, I know--a lame name.\u00a0\u00a0Three Women in Sandals is another painting in my Playhouse Square\u00a0series.\u00a0 It's 44\" x 60.\" By now, I've created a large number of paintings in the Playhouse Square series and I still plan several more.\u00a0 I have not exhausted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cleveland"","block_context":{"text":"Cleveland","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/cleveland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-25.png?fit=800%2C1194&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-25.png?fit=800%2C1194&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-25.png?fit=800%2C1194&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-25.png?fit=800%2C1194&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7708,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/turpentine-diaries-3-4-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":7685,"position":1},"title":"Turpentine diaries 3\/4\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The one thing I dislike about my current studio is that it doesn't have north-facing windows. 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