{"id":20317,"date":"2026-01-09T11:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20317"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:39:25","slug":"i-looked-out-the-window-and-it-was-a-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/09\/i-looked-out-the-window-and-it-was-a-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"I looked out the window, and it was a painting."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-1153x2048.jpeg 1153w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1754-scaled.jpeg 1441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Jason Fulford, courtesy of the New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">looking through old <em>New York Times <\/em>Sunday magazines and happened upon this wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/09\/26\/magazine\/gelato-southern-italy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">article (and drawings) by Tamara Shopsin<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my brain surgery, life was heightened. Food not tasting rotten was a gift. I looked out the window, and it was a painting. I felt the sun on my arm and cried.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life-affirming! Read it please!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>looking through old New York Times Sunday magazines and happened upon this wonderful article (and drawings) by Tamara Shopsin: After my brain surgery, life was heightened. Food not tasting rotten was a gift. I looked out the window, and it was a painting. I felt the sun on my arm and cried. Life-affirming! Read it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20324,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions\/20324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}