{"id":3156,"date":"2022-09-03T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:00:40","slug":"a-happy-happy-re-post-from-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3156","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018happy happy\u2019 re-post from 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe shoe that fits one person pinches another;<br \/>\nthere is no recipe for living that suits all cases.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Carl Jung<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The distinctive singularity of an individual has been a profound feature of my awareness throughout life. Undoubtedly, it is the basis for much of what I have enjoyed doing most \u2014 from solving visual problems for unique entrepreneurs, or creating my own brand of illustrated portraits, and, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/haus-cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hand-crafting greeting cards<\/a> with collage miniatures. I shall never tire of assembling a spontaneous composition with suitable ingredients to honor a particular person. Each collage, like every human being, is a one-of-a-kind creation, and the medium is ideal for personalized expressions. The artist has a remarkable opportunity to interpret the peculiar constellation of personality traits, proclivities, and associations that befit a fellow mortal. To put it simply: I love it!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dixon_DwindlingNest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dixon_DwindlingNest.jpg\" title=\"Dwindling Nest ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 311px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Dwindling Nest<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of J Hellyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.\u201d \u2014 Carl Jung The distinctive singularity of an individual has been a profound feature of my awareness throughout life. Undoubtedly, it is the basis for much of what I have enjoyed doing most \u2014 from solving visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,26,18,8,61,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}