{"id":1615,"date":"2021-09-25T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2021-09-25T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T18:38:12","slug":"the-koi-that-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"The koi that got away&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4455.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4455.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4455-300x164.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4456.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4456.jpeg 358w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_4456-300x172.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><figcaption>Reversible Koi<br><br>Oil on canvas<br><br>Both views from poor quality photo<br>(the only documentation)<br><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">It&#8217;s unusual for me to let a painting go without having good documentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">of it first &#8211;  a slide, 4&#215;5 transparency, or more recently a good photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">Unfortunately in this case,  none of that happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">It was sold.   To Mass General in Boston.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">And apparently resides at one of the nurses&#8217; stations in OB-GYN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">I had hoped to track it down  &#8211; there are many locations where it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">could be &#8211; but that was before all the Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">Oh well.    Someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">The title is &#8220;Reversible Koi&#8221; because it is just that,  meant to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">hung either way.    Hence,  I signed it along the left edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">I don&#8217;t remember the dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unusual for me to let a painting go without having good documentation of it first &#8211; a slide, 4&#215;5 transparency, or more recently a good photo. Unfortunately in this case, none of that happened. It was sold. To Mass General in Boston. And apparently resides at one of the nurses&#8217; stations in OB-GYN. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The koi that got away&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,13,11,9,14],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contemporary-art","tag-koi-paintings","tag-lindaaholt","tag-lindaholt","tag-oil-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}