{"id":131,"date":"2016-05-11T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:13:57","slug":"paint-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/paint-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paint-can-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paint-can-11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"paint-can-11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paint-can-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paint-can-11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/paint-can-11.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Color is a palate of emotions. Blue is calm, green energy, red strength, yellow openness.<\/p>\n<p>My life changed significantly in the past three years. The colors around me kept me in places I no longer want or need to be. \u00a0So I changed colors. Not\u00a0for me the soft gray, charcoal and dusty mauve. I no longer wake to\u00a0periwinkle blues. Grief muddied all the colors around me any way and the dulled\u00a0colors bound me to relationships that no longer exist and a life no longer lived.<\/p>\n<p>So I paint. No white ceilings for me, I wrap entire rooms in color.\u00a0Now I wake to apple green. I gather family and friends in a room of white blush, robin\u2019s egg blue and teal.<\/p>\n<p>Colors arise from my insides and move into the world like a life force, like dandelions pushing their way through a crack in the sidewalk. And color gifts me from the outside in, beckoning me to new life. Reminding me to live again. To embrace the world and be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>I reclaim my life with paint. Color me Connie.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color is a palate of emotions. Blue is calm, green energy, red strength, yellow openness. My life changed significantly in the past three years. The colors around me kept me in places I no longer want or need to be. \u00a0So I changed colors. Not\u00a0for me the soft gray, charcoal and dusty mauve. I no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/paint-and-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paint and Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}