{"id":3298,"date":"2013-08-07T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2013-08-07T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:20:00","slug":"my-other-favorite-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/08\/07\/my-other-favorite-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"My other favorite angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/716600.html\">Angel of Grief,<\/a> my favorite angel is the one in Abbott Thayer&#8217;s painting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stevenson_Memorial\">Stevenson Memorial,<\/a> which he painted in 1903 to commemorate Robert Louis Stevenson. Most of my comments about the Angel of Grief&#8217;s earthy, mortal, emotional nature also apply to the Stevenson Memorial angel. I love her bulk, her weight, her solidity. I love how the browns and greens in her hair, wings and robe reflect the browns and greens of the swallowing background, making her organic, natural and concrete. I love how the background is so dark that she appears to be glowing in the night. I love her melancholy, thoughtful expression, her eyes turned down in contemplation, the fact that she&#8217;s almost pouting. I love how she&#8217;s not really an angel after all, no diaphanous light-made being with fearsome tidings from God, but an actual, fleshly person bearing the weight of symbolism on her shoulders and the weight of grief in her heart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1560367.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1560367.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1560367.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the Angel of Grief, my favorite angel is the one in Abbott Thayer&#8217;s painting Stevenson Memorial, which he painted in 1903 to commemorate Robert Louis Stevenson. Most of my comments about the Angel of Grief&#8217;s earthy, mortal, emotional nature also apply to the Stevenson Memorial angel. I love her bulk, her weight, her solidity.&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/08\/07\/my-other-favorite-angel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My other favorite angel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}