{"id":4160,"date":"2016-11-09T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:55:53","slug":"the-fine-art-of-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4160","title":{"rendered":"The Fine Art of Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art is a great healer. It takes the mind and the heart from the troubles of the day to a different space, a different time, a different world. Maybe that&#8217;s why so many artists seem so &#8220;spaced out,&#8221; most of the time &#8211; &nbsp;they are someplace else.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing some fibre Art lately, namely needle felting. Here is my first attempt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEht7uUmt-xwiCLJXZNNfcHxnMY32hSMM67MQX0Guo8bjkl3BK9RAvwSuDtiv1MG9Q_a7DV63q71z5HToPOjYeMEFh0cqkMfjg2SNqET9d9GQeahRu-G_Z-VJPihEO0iD-qw9-oTiA\/s320\/felt+house.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEht7uUmt-xwiCLJXZNNfcHxnMY32hSMM67MQX0Guo8bjkl3BK9RAvwSuDtiv1MG9Q_a7DV63q71z5HToPOjYeMEFh0cqkMfjg2SNqET9d9GQeahRu-G_Z-VJPihEO0iD-qw9-oTiA\/s320\/felt+house.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I need to go there, now!!<\/p>\n<p>On the morning after a great American tragedy, I have begun another retreat. Here is a work in progress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEissxLLwy7qDR4Ib2wgi4zceVLdsyhewK0wBuiQ33ByAvBn8CAV0GIYG3LDbYD8IrWrU-nXmFuVY9NGgcOT5Zk7L4Lx8DYCvs39Z7pLzJUukffZEQLdNRK4Dk9qlb_Jwj3U-smbPQ\/s320\/felt+house+1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEissxLLwy7qDR4Ib2wgi4zceVLdsyhewK0wBuiQ33ByAvBn8CAV0GIYG3LDbYD8IrWrU-nXmFuVY9NGgcOT5Zk7L4Lx8DYCvs39Z7pLzJUukffZEQLdNRK4Dk9qlb_Jwj3U-smbPQ\/s320\/felt+house+1.jpg\" width=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today and for sometime to come, I will create places that nurture the soul. Through Art, Peace and Love shall prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Have a healing day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is a great healer. It takes the mind and the heart from the troubles of the day to a different space, a different time, a different world. Maybe that&#8217;s why so many artists seem so &#8220;spaced out,&#8221; most of the time &#8211; &nbsp;they are someplace else. I have been doing some fibre Art lately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4163,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}