{"id":3039,"date":"2011-05-30T19:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2011-05-30T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T00:34:47","slug":"digital-kinkade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"Digital Kinkade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kinkadified-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kinkadified-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kinkadified-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3040\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend sent me this altered photograph today. He took a copy of a photo on this blog, then applied digital effects to the photo using tools at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befunky.com\/\">BeFunky.com<\/a>. I guess I&#8217;m getting ever closer to making Acorn Abbey look like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskinkade.com\/magi\/servlet\/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?catalogAction=Category&#038;menuNdx=0.5\">Thomas Kinkade<\/a> painting, as long as some digital effects are applied.<\/p>\n<p>The wildflower patches and day lilies will be blooming soon. Then I can take photos with much more color.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m aware that sophisticated artsy types look down on Thomas Kinkade. But I&#8217;m not ashamed to say that I like his cottage paintings. They evoke a simpler, more innocent, more rural, more self-reliant time. And what could be wrong with that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cottage-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cottage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cottage-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3041\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskinkade.com\/magi\/servlet\/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?catalogAction=Category&#038;menuNdx=0.5\">Thomas Kinkade<\/a> painting<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent me this altered photograph today. He took a copy of a photo on this blog, then applied digital effects to the photo using tools at BeFunky.com. I guess I&#8217;m getting ever closer to making Acorn Abbey look like a Thomas Kinkade painting, as long as some digital effects are applied. The wildflower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Kinkade?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}