{"id":14515,"date":"2022-02-19T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2022\/02\/19\/over-winter\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:58","slug":"over-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2022\/02\/19\/over-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2551\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1812\/Scan.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hm. I write these as I go along, so they&#8217;re not always coherent. In this case, I don&#8217;t mean to say that Christmas and Craig&#8217;s birthday weren&#8217;t joyful. There <em>are<\/em> joys &#8212; they&#8217;re just slight and subtle these days.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Island has announced that it will lift its mandates in April, and even though many of us are wary of this move, oh, the idea of a <em>summer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Even being in the coffeeshop this morning was such a treat &#8212; to have time and space out in the world, away from computers, to just think and sip and draw.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I made a little sketchbook at the start of the year, meaning to do more drawing that isn&#8217;t so <em>purposeful<\/em>, like my work-work and my diary comix, that&#8217;s just a space to play in, to experiment, where I&#8217;m allowed to get things wrong and have them not turn out.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So I opened that after I finished the comic above, and, after starting with my customary self-portrait, doodled a few of the other patrons, and the neighbours&#8217; dog, who was stuck outside for a while last night. That was fun!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2552\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1812\/Scan-1.png.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm. I write these as I go along, so they&#8217;re not always coherent. In this case, I don&#8217;t mean to say that Christmas and Craig&#8217;s birthday weren&#8217;t joyful. There are joys &#8212; they&#8217;re just slight and subtle these days. Prince Edward Island has announced that it will lift its mandates in April, and even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}