{"id":3340,"date":"2012-03-04T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2012-03-04T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:10:53","slug":"winter-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Winter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just incase you think my life is idyllic …..after yesterday’s comments….I would like to point out that I am the mother of teenagers. Life is often turbulent and difficult. That’s probably why I cling so desperately to the tiny moments of peace and happiness, and why I spend so much time knitting socks.<\/p>\n

Today I ran away and went to a very nice exhibition in the Z\u00fcrich Art Gallery. Winter Tales<\/em> – an exhibition of European winter pictures from the Renaissance to the Impressionists (on until April should you wish to visit).<\/p>\n

I loved the early Dutch paintings, mainly by people I’d never heard of, but brimming full of scenes of rural folk skating on frozen canals, like the one above by Peter Brueghel (Winter landscape with bird trap<\/em>, 1601)<\/p>\n

It was also a delight to encounter paintings I knew from elsewhere – like Monet’s Magpie<\/em> (1868\/9) from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.<\/p>\n

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A little oasis of calm in a life that is presently anything but.<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

(I’m sorry about the beige boxes under the pictures…I can’t seem to get rid of them!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Just incase you think my life is idyllic …..after yesterday’s comments….I would like to point out that I am the mother of teenagers. Life is often turbulent and difficult. That’s probably why I cling so desperately to the tiny moments of peace and happiness, and why I spend so much time knitting socks. Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-RS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}