{"id":34177,"date":"2013-02-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=34177"},"modified":"2013-02-21T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:28:32","slug":"charlotte-mei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/02\/21\/charlotte-mei\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Mei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34205\" title=\"Charlotte Mei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Mei\" width=\"500\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm-448x414.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34207\" title=\"Charlotte Mei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm3.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Mei\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm3-154x154.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm3-444x448.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34208\" title=\"Charlotte Mei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm4.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Mei\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm4-355x448.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34206\" title=\"Charlotte Mei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm2.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Mei\" width=\"500\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm2-398x448.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34210 aligncenter\" title=\"Charlotte Mei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm6.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Mei\" width=\"500\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cm6-448x421.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, one of my goals is to be more fluid and to embrace outcomes \u2013 whatever it may be.<\/p>\n<p>While I am getting there, there&#8217;s still a part of me (the\u00a0subconscious\u00a0bit) that inevitably wants order amongst the chaos. Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m at the edge of a cliff and my back is pressed up against hard rocks, and I can feel my hair blowing in the wind. Every inch of my body wants to yell &#8220;HURL YOURSELF OVER THE EDGE!&#8221; and yet my fingers \u2013 my fingers are my undoing: they still claw and cling to the safety of familiarity.<\/p>\n<p>So understandably, I was drawn to these illustrations on ceramic by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/charlottemei.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Mei<\/a>, a freelance illustrator, potter and editor based in London, UK; whose lines and unbridled, uncomplicated brush strokes are pure genius in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a year of learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Charlotte Mei\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/02\/21\/charlotte-mei\/\" aria-label=\"More on Charlotte Mei\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[64,102,75],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34213,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions\/34213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}