{"id":146978,"date":"2022-09-07T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146978"},"modified":"2022-09-07T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:15:54","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-grandma-moses-on-her-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146978","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Grandma Moses on Her Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look back on my life like a good day&#8217;s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grandma_Moses\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NPG_81.8_Grandma_Moses_Clara_Sipprell_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146980\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.&#8221; ~ Anna Mary Robertson Moses or Grandma Moses September 7, 1860 \u2013 December 13, 1961 &#8220;A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NPG_81.8_Grandma_Moses_Clara_Sipprell_cropped.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146981,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146978\/revisions\/146981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}