{"id":666,"date":"2019-02-02T04:46:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=666"},"modified":"2019-02-02T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:47:06","slug":"the-red-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/the-red-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lost in reverie, helped along by the amber light playing dapple\nwith the rustling leaves, enjoying the morning sun along the wooded trail. A\njay screeching near by breaks the spell and I see an old man, bent and\nsupported by a cane that looks older than his eighty or so years, approaching\nme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Good morning,&#8221; I say, smiling and nodding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Is it?&#8221; he replies in gruff and grouchy tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well, it has been for me I must say.&#8221; My smile\ncontinues to meet his frown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Well, still, you must paint the red sun.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What?&#8221; I am thrown off balance by this sudden change in\nwhat had been a simple exchange of greetings even if a bit off-putting on his\npart. I have no idea what to say.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But why?&#8221; I blurted out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So, you can see what is coming and so others can see,&#8221;\nhe said. And then, &#8220;You must promise to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I closed my eyes and looked down trying to make sense of the\nstranger&#8217;s command and request. I couldn&#8217;t make any sense of it at all. I\nlooked up and opened my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I was waking up from this dream, an image of a red sun\npresented itself and though I had not promised in the dream, I decided to paint\nthe image.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man was gone. I looked in each direction. Nowhere to be seen. He\nhad disappeared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I could see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So you could see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is my first effort to capture the image as I saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"823\" src=\"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Red-Sun-1024x823.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Red-Sun-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Red-Sun-600x482.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Red-Sun-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Red-Sun-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in reverie, helped along by the amber light playing dapple with the rustling leaves, enjoying the morning sun along the wooded trail. A jay screeching near by breaks the spell and I see an old man, bent and supported by a cane that looks older than his eighty or so years, approaching me.&nbsp; &#8220;Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}