{"id":599,"date":"2011-05-23T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-02-27T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T05:58:48","slug":"beggars-bread-and-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/2011\/05\/23\/beggars-bread-and-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Beggars, Bread, and Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had something in mind that I was going to write for this issue\u2019s column, but then the little one gave us an early wake-up call this morning and my mind went blank. And then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/stevescorner\/2011\/05\/23\/so-much-is-going-on-these-days-that-sometimes-it-is-hard-to-know-what-to-write-about\/\">Steve\u2019s great column<\/a> and decided to do something different.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a sketch that illustrates what Steve is talking about. It was meant to be turned in to an actual full blown piece of art work, but time has hindered that so far. But sometimes the rough sketches are the best. The imperfections seem real to us, just like the perfection of CG graphics seem so unreal at times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/files\/2011\/05\/beggar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-600\" title=\"beggar\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/files\/2011\/05\/beggar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/files\/2011\/05\/beggar.jpg 456w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/files\/2011\/05\/beggar-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had something in mind that I was going to write for this issue\u2019s column, but then the little one gave us an early wake-up call this morning and my mind went blank. And then I read Steve\u2019s great column &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/2011\/05\/23\/beggars-bread-and-sketches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[109,91],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2011","category-published-articles","tag-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/mattsmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}