{"id":184,"date":"2013-02-06T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-11-24T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:58:11","slug":"wednesday-feeling-much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wednesday-feeling-much-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday &#8211; Feeling much better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemHeader\">\n<p>The good news is; the cough has been much better today. Unfortunately, there seems to be an emergence of other cold symptoms &#8211; like the blasted lurgy has been all around the ship and finally made it back to me. Between a runny nose and a hacking cough, though, I know which I prefer; overall, you&#8217;ll be pleased to hear that I&#8217;ve been much less of a Mr Grumpy today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemContent\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Both yesterday and today, I&#8217;ve been doing portraits in the class. It&#8217;s a subject that a few people voiced trepidation over, and one or two even admitted to almost not turning up at all; the results were pleasingly good, though, with one or two clearly having done faces before, and several more, who claimed to never having painted a face, turning out remarkably good paintings. Today, I did have one lady leave before we got properly started, saying that she couldn&#8217;t handle it&#8230; which is actually something of a record!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Personally, I&#8217;m rubbish at doing portraits, but still enjoy the challenge of painting them&#8230; I think most people, when it came down to the wire, actually enjoyed themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">After the last class, we went for a late lunch, then I painted a turtle&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">We have one more sea day tomorrow, then we&#8217;ll be in the Azores &#8211; the last two ports before home&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is; the cough has been much better today. Unfortunately, there seems to be an emergence of other cold symptoms &#8211; like the blasted lurgy has been all around the ship and finally made it back to me. Between a runny nose and a hacking cough, though, I know which I prefer; overall, you&#8217;ll be pleased to hear&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}