{"id":4216,"date":"2021-02-22T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:41:27","slug":"stormcrow-or-getting-ahead-of-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-or-getting-ahead-of-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormcrow (or, getting ahead of myself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m normally running behind on projects for some unknown reason, maybe because I&#8217;m easily distracted \ud83d\ude09 this time however I&#8217;m ahead of the game. It probably won&#8217;t happen again for a long long time. So, the theme of the month for March on John Howe&#8217;s website is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/forum\/smf\/index.php?topic=4805.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was a Dark and Stormy Night<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stormy weather, rough seas, high winds, all the meteorological excitement that a storm heralds. (You are also of course free to depict storm gods, storm crows, Flying Dutchmen and all manner of creatures and beings of the storm, on land or sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The words <em>storm crows<\/em> made me think of Gandalf, for obvious reasons, so I decided to try doodling Gandalf wandering in the rain one evening \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200.jpg\" alt=\"Gandalf Storm Crow - watercolour\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200-180x365.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200-415x840.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200-768x1555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200-759x1536.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stormcrow-1200-1012x2048.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m normally running behind on projects for some unknown reason, maybe because I&#8217;m easily distracted \ud83d\ude09 this time however I&#8217;m ahead of the game. It probably won&#8217;t happen again for a long long time. So, the theme of the month for March on John Howe&#8217;s website is It was a Dark and Stormy Night&#8230;. Stormy weather, rough seas, high winds, all the meteorological excitement that a storm heralds. (You are also of course free to depict storm gods, storm crows, Flying Dutchmen and all manner of creatures and beings of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,757],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a","tag-rain","tag-tolkien-gandalf"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}