{"id":695,"date":"2013-08-20T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2014-07-04T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:05:19","slug":"a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"A closer look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchionline.com\/art\/Painting-Lichen-magnified\/170975\/1253183\/view\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45\" alt=\"lichen magnified by Krista Anandakuttan\" src=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/lichen-cropped.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Lichen, magnified<\/em> <\/strong>(detail)<\/p>\n<p>Watercolor on paper<\/p>\n<p>This painting has just been featured by Saatchi Online Gallery, in a curated collection called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchionline.com\/art-collection\/Painting-Photography-Assemblage-Collage\/Last-Days-of-Summer\/2\/31360\/view\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Last Days of Summer&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those discovery paintings, fun from start to finish. I picked up a twig from underfoot and examined it through a microscope&#8211; and entered an incredible forest of lichens. Species include of <em>Physcia, Usnea<\/em>, and <em>Xanthoria<\/em> found in the Santa Cruz mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lichen, magnified (detail) Watercolor on paper This painting has just been featured by Saatchi Online Gallery, in a curated collection called &#8220;Last Days of Summer&#8221; It&#8217;s one of those discovery paintings, fun from start to finish. I picked up a twig from underfoot and examined it through a microscope&#8211; and entered an incredible forest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[15,40,92,94,182],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits","category-nature-miniatures","category-science","tag-art","tag-california","tag-lichen","tag-microscope","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}