{"id":591,"date":"2008-12-11T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-12-13T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:53:33","slug":"ornamental-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/ornamental-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Ornamental Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href='https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/polymer-clay-projects\/ornament-angel-1208.jpg' title='Ornament made of polymer clay.  Project completed 12\/11\/08'><img src='https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/polymer-clay-projects\/thumbs\/thumbs_ornament-angel-1208.jpg' alt='Ornament - Angel' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/a><a  href='https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/polymer-clay-projects\/ornament-angel-wingview.jpg' title='Angel Ornament from back; unfinished state.'><img src='https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/polymer-clay-projects\/thumbs\/thumbs_ornament-angel-wingview.jpg' alt='Angel - Wing view' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/a><br \/>\nEach new project is another lesson learned.  I appreciate the challenges this ornament project brought; they pushed me far beyond my comfort zone.  I learned I can work under the pressure of unexpected deadlines, though I need to be more efficient with my time.  I need to hone my skills for sculpting teeny faces.  Practicing on 3 inches of clay is not the same as a 3\/4 inch ball.  Same goes for teeny hands &mdash; ow.  Magnifying glasses are required.  And smoothing?  Egads, polymer clay is fussy!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I hope her new owner enjoys her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each new project is another lesson learned. I appreciate the challenges this ornament project brought; they pushed me far beyond my comfort zone. I learned I can work under the pressure of unexpected deadlines, though I need to be more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/ornamental-christmas\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[135],"tags":[138,148,137,108,136],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polymer-clay-art","tag-angel","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-polymer-clay","tag-sculpting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgAui-9x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everwild.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}