{"id":67217,"date":"2025-03-26T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67217"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:25:05","slug":"van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His bright blue eyes<\/p>\n<p>they saw the world<\/p>\n<p>In myriad perceptions<\/p>\n<p>a quiet man<\/p>\n<p>in so many ways<\/p>\n<p>enjoyed his own reflections<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>loving flowers and \u00a0leaves and stalks<\/p>\n<p>of collecting natural thoughts<\/p>\n<p>an artist he was sensitive<\/p>\n<p>just quietly going for varied walks<\/p>\n<p>Registering the colours<\/p>\n<p>and the light, \u00a0 that brought strange hue\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>he had an in house magic<\/p>\n<p>with oh so many clues<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a ginger beard<\/p>\n<p>a wild moustache<\/p>\n<p>a pale skin, but his way<\/p>\n<p>of putting down on canvas<\/p>\n<p>what his mind had seen that day<\/p>\n<p>others found \u00a0him maddening<\/p>\n<p>A loner maybe, \u00a0he<\/p>\n<p>enjoyed the kind of world he saw<\/p>\n<p>and brought to life for he<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>an artist \u00a0on a journey<\/p>\n<p>perceiving so \u00a0much more<\/p>\n<p>than all the man made claptrap<\/p>\n<p>that others saw before<\/p>\n<p>on his own his brush and palette<\/p>\n<p>and conjured colours bright<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh had sought within his dreams<\/p>\n<p>To create \u00a0that special light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His bright blue eyes they saw the world In myriad perceptions a quiet man in so many ways enjoyed his own reflections &nbsp; loving flowers and \u00a0leaves and stalks of collecting natural thoughts an artist he was sensitive just quietly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/van-gogh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venerable-and-respected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67249,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67217\/revisions\/67249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}