{"id":6659,"date":"2007-05-31T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:04:22","slug":"happy-place-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"Maxfield Parrish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These images always make me think of my grandparents house in Newton &#8211; and my aunt Regina, who had a big book of Maxfield Parrish&#8217;s work in her room.  I was transported by him.  Still love him &#8211; and every year when I buy a wall calendar, it&#8217;s a Maxfield Parrish one.  Maybe it&#8217;s the smidgeon of romantic spirit left in me (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3345\">Keith<\/a> would laugh at me for saying that.  &#8220;You&#8217;re over-the-top romantic, Sheila. Gimme a break.&#8221;) &#8211; but I find him almost gushingly fantastic.  I look at his stuff and I find myself going off into lovely beautiful worlds in my head, ramparts upon ramparts, vaulted clouds in the sky.  You know.  Romantic!  I&#8217;m not generally into fantasy (as a genre), or pretty Renaissance Faire princesses running through misty woods wearing big cone-hats.  Not my style.  But Maxfield Parrish?  Bring it on.   There&#8217;s something psychedelic about him.  Druggy.  (More on Parrish <a href=\"http:\/\/giam.typepad.com\/100_years_of_illustration\/maxfield_parrish_18701966\/index.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy happy place!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/parrish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/parrish1.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/parrish1-137x200.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/parrish1-274x400.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/parrish1-68x100.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images always make me think of my grandparents house in Newton &#8211; and my aunt Regina, who had a big book of Maxfield Parrish&#8217;s work in her room. I was transported by him. Still love him &#8211; and every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[1514,1539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180812,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/180812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}