{"id":4643,"date":"2012-02-22T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:31:01","slug":"chinese-blue-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/chinese-blue-chic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Blue Chic &#8211; Mixed Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Blue Chic<\/p>\n<p>I see myself as the Chinese Blue Chic.\u00a0 My favourite colour is turquoise blue.\u00a0 As baby birds we grow up.\u00a0 We leave home.\u00a0 We fly back.\u00a0 We seek our destiny far and wide.\u00a0 We have bird cages to live in with family and friends.\u00a0 The cages represent many places we stop at along the way \u2013 school, business, community, etc.\u00a0 We have many opportunities where to spend our time.\u00a0 We are loved and cared for, then we take care of ourselves, then we take care of others through parenting, friendships and as colleagues or neighbours.\u00a0 Let your baby bird make choices and help him or her fly to a greater awareness of living life with love, compassion, gratitude, joy, faith and fun and finding your purpose and ultimate destiny along the way.\u00a0 The name Gail, my name, means \u201cGives Joy\u201d, \u201cA Father\u2019s Joy\u201d, \u201cFather of Exaltation\u201d.\u00a0 To my Dad, who could bring the birds out of the trees with his whistle, I must have been his \u201cJoy\u201d when born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Blue Chic I see myself as the Chinese Blue Chic.\u00a0 My favourite colour is turquoise blue.\u00a0 As baby birds we grow up.\u00a0 We leave home.\u00a0 We fly back.\u00a0 We seek our destiny far and wide.\u00a0 We have bird cages to live in with family and friends.\u00a0 The cages represent many places we stop at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/chinese-blue-chic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Blue Chic &#8211; Mixed Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}