{"id":328,"date":"2008-07-07T20:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:33:16","slug":"pomegranate-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/pomegranate-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranate Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I came up with this idea of painting pomegranate creatures. Sound weird? It all started as I was washing dishes. On the kitchen windowsill were these dried pomegranates I had picked from our tree last year.<\/p>\n<p>The more I observed them the more they looked like the wizened faces of some magical tree creatures.The tree is around 75 years old, and in the summertime I spend a great deal of time daydreaming beneath it&#8217;s branches.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought  what a wonderful idea, pomegranate creatures which live in the trees and once a year they leave their home to walk among humans.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up writing two fantasy short stories about pomegranate trees. They came to me completely fleshed out as if I were watching a movie.  It was a very strange and wonderfully unexpected experience!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-329\" title=\"pommoonwebhead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pommoonwebhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pommoonwebhead.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pommoonwebhead-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pomegranate Creature  # 1 &#8211; Combined Media &#8211; 12 X 12 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I came up with this idea of painting pomegranate creatures. Sound weird? It all started as I was washing dishes. On the kitchen windowsill were these dried pomegranates I had picked from our tree last year. The more I observed them the more they looked like the wizened faces of some magical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[192,189,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}