{"id":1572,"date":"2013-12-06T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:08:17","slug":"winters-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Winter&rsquo;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Texas here, and it\u2019s been nicely warm for a few days, and now we\u2019ve been having a freezing cold front come through and we get those times too in Winter. In another corner of my cluttered mind I found the cartoon below and it reminded me how much I enjoyed Charles Addams\u2019 cartoons in the early 1950s. I too had a dark streak under my mild exterior, a not-too-buried shadow-monster complex, and so I found the open exhibition of it cathartic. It\u2019s one of the functions of art and drama. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-06-2013-094821AM2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12-06-2013 09;48;21AM2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"12-06-2013 09;48;21AM2\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-06-2013-094821AM2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m warm and cozy at home and this cartoon above, with Dad saying, \u201cJust the kind of day that makes you feel good to be alive!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Texas here, and it\u2019s been nicely warm for a few days, and now we\u2019ve been having a freezing cold front come through and we get those times too in Winter. In another corner of my cluttered mind I found the cartoon below and it reminded me how much I enjoyed Charles Addams\u2019 cartoons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-autobiographical","category-favoritethings","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}