{"id":34718,"date":"2017-08-05T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34718"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:13:44","slug":"let-the-paint-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/let-the-paint-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Paint Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s the smallest little realizations that make the biggest splashes,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honored to hear natures voice sing in my heart, cause what&#8217;s worse than painting over wet paint?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You know? Bruce Lee couldn&#8217;t hear this and his legs stopped walking, this is what it took.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will never walk again.&#8221; Said the doctor. And Bruce sat in deep thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Months and months went by as he further defined his theories. Did he really lose his legs?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or was nature forcing him to let the paint dry?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See, I draw with pencils and well, they&#8217;re already dry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I started panting cars and that first layer looked like shit, I couldn&#8217;t tell why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later the next day I began again and it hit me, &#8220;You gotta let the paint dry!&#8221; I screamed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ran into the house and I stared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stared at my drawing, over 2,000 hours already invested into it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t worked on it for about a month and I realized that I was just letting the paint dry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the drawing opened up to me. What do I do? How do I finish?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these things, I suddenly knew. And I finished that drawing in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still letting the paint dry a little bit. It&#8217;s okay to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Natures voice is soft, easily missed. But when you&#8217;re as strong willed and dedicated as I am,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nature just might take your legs for a short time while the paint drys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You see, my friend, sometimes it&#8217;s the smallest realizations that make the biggest splashes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s the smallest little realizations that make the biggest splashes, &nbsp; I&#8217;m honored to hear natures voice sing in my heart, cause what&#8217;s worse than painting over wet paint? &nbsp; You know? Bruce Lee couldn&#8217;t hear this and his legs stopped walking, this is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/34722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}