{"id":1585,"date":"2003-10-22T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2003-10-22T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T13:23:30","slug":"fall-painted-maple-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Fall Painted Maple Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RedEdgeMaple.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/RedEdgeMaple.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSometimes nature looks unnatural.  Or at least unreal.<\/p>\n<p>I used rubber stamps of various fall leaves to decorate our wedding invitations.  I tried using a variety of different colored inks on a stamp pad until I came up with a sort of gradient from green through yellow to red-orange&#8230; I think they worked pretty well.  They looked more believable than this, and it&#8217;s an actual leaf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes nature looks unnatural. Or at least unreal. I used rubber stamps of various fall leaves to decorate our wedding invitations. I tried using a variety of different colored inks on a stamp pad until I came up with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}