{"id":416,"date":"2010-12-11T18:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T23:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2010-12-16T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:19:20","slug":"the-importance-of-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/the-importance-of-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-451\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/the-importance-of-eyes\/third-eye-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"Third Eye-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Third-Eye-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Third Eye - #3 in the Series &quot;The Eye Has It&quot;\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Third-Eye-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Third-Eye-1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Third-Eye-1.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third Eye - #3 in the Series &quot;The Eye Has It&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having just recently experienced a big scare about the future of my eyesight, it stands to reason that I&#8217;m obsessed with eyes right now &#8211; not only their function, but their look and form. \u00a0As it turns out, I don&#8217;t need eye surgery this minute. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m relieved. \u00a0But having that dark spot in my right eye&#8217;s central vision makes painting a bit more of a challenge. \u00a0It seems, so far, that I&#8217;m\u00a0able to work around what could be interpreted as \u00a0just a smudge on my glasses &#8211; even though it&#8217;s a smudge on my retina.<\/p>\n<p>What this experience is doing for me is providing motivation to make art while the sun shines, so to speak. \u00a0My goal is to paint every day. \u00a0This is not something I&#8217;ve done before, so get ready to see a lot more art. \u00a0Did I mention how grateful I am for my health?<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just recently experienced a big scare about the future of my eyesight, it stands to reason that I&#8217;m obsessed with eyes right now &#8211; not only their function, but their look and form. \u00a0As it turns out, I don&#8217;t need eye surgery this minute. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m relieved. \u00a0But having that dark spot in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,6],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-prints-collages","tag-eyes","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}