{"id":97,"date":"2009-07-09T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T18:21:42","slug":"free-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Free At Last&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"free-at-last.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/free-at-last.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/free-at-last.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"free-at-last.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free At Last&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today I completed another painting.\u00a0 Now I am left with three paintings to complete before the end of the month.\u00a0 I checked out several audio books from the library to listen to while I paint.\u00a0 I love listening to audio books they are quite entertaining during the creative process.\u00a0 So far I have listened to two books over the past few days; &#8220;The Senator&#8217;s Wife by Sue Miller and &#8220;The Brethren&#8221; by Beverly Lewis.\u00a0 I am now listening to &#8220;Buckingham Palace Gardens&#8221; by\u00a0 Anne Perry.<\/p>\n<p>The above abstract painting &#8220;Free At Last&#8221; illustrates four colorful figures dancing and rejoicing in the discovery of their new found FREEDOM.\u00a0 The freedom of choice.\u00a0 Freedom to live as we desire to live and to love whom we will.\u00a0 Freedom to express, be and become and the &#8220;BIGGY&#8221; <span id=\"lw_1247185426_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">freedom from fear<\/span> and limitations of every kind.\u00a0 Freedom to be ME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Free At Last&#8221; Today I completed another painting.\u00a0 Now I am left with three paintings to complete before the end of the month.\u00a0 I checked out several audio books from the library to listen to while I paint.\u00a0 I love listening to audio books they are quite entertaining during the creative process.\u00a0 So far I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[616,614,613,603,102,319,340,618,615,323,359,301,617,325,326,620,610,688,324,604,331,335,333,341,113,611,609,114,336,612,320,619,196,322,321,608],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-even-monkeys-fall-out-of-trees","tag-abstract-painting","tag-african-american-female-abstract-artist","tag-african-american-museum","tag-art-by-marvalisa-coley","tag-arts-league-of-michigan","tag-audio-books","tag-be-and-become-and-the-biggy-freedom-from-fear-and-limit","tag-bell-rock-mountain-sedona-arizona","tag-black-female-abstract-painter","tag-buckingham-palace-gardens-by-author-anne-perry","tag-cafepress-commarvalisa","tag-charles-h-wright-museum","tag-colorado-springs-hiking-trails","tag-colorful-figures-dancing-and-rejoicing","tag-contemporary-abstract-painting","tag-detroit-artists-market","tag-detroit-eastern-market-artisan-village","tag-even-monkeys-fall-out-of-trees","tag-free-at-last","tag-free-hand-painting","tag-freedom-of-choice","tag-freedom-to-be-me","tag-freedom-to-express","tag-freedom-to-live-as-we-desire-to-live-and-to-love-whom-w","tag-gilda-snowden","tag-james-spearman","tag-marvalisa-youtube","tag-national-conference-of-artists-michigan-chapter","tag-new-found-freedom","tag-raymond-wells","tag-recorded-books-on-cd","tag-sedona-az-hiking-trails","tag-shirley-woodson","tag-the-brethren-by-author-beverly-lewis","tag-the-senators-wife-by-author-sue-miller","tag-youtube-commarvasart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}