{"id":41,"date":"2007-04-07T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/07\/portrait-of-jenny\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:04:33","slug":"portrait-of-jenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/07\/portrait-of-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read almost three chapters so far and am really enjoying it.\u00c2\u00a0 Already it is presenting itself with the notion of time.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, Eben seems preoccupied with the idea of controlling time.\u00c2\u00a0 This is always interesting because it seems to be at the heart of everyone&#8217;s decisions in life.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re always trying to &#8220;save time,&#8221; we&#8217;re running out of time, or we just want to go back in time.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a strong connection between art and life.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Mathews tells Eben not to paint landscapes because they don&#8217;t reflect time.\u00c2\u00a0 But the sketch of Jenny does.\u00c2\u00a0 He can&#8217;t just be referring to her clothes because that is just a superficial triviality.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m waiting to see what all this means.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if Jenny grows up faster, as the novel hints at, to be with Eben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read almost three chapters so far and am really enjoying it.\u00c2\u00a0 Already it is presenting itself with the notion of time.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, Eben seems preoccupied with the idea of controlling time.\u00c2\u00a0 This is always interesting because it seems to be at the heart of everyone&#8217;s decisions in life.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re always trying to &#8220;save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}