{"id":276,"date":"2019-02-04T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:23:20","slug":"mandalas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/mandalas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandalas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I started my mandala and I was looking at examples, I was thinking, there is no way I can make something complex or beautiful like this. I\u2019m not this kind of artist, and I can\u2019t draw for my life. But when I started working on it, I got really into it. I\u2019d always associated mandalas with meditation, but never really knew how you could meditate with it. When I was in that creative mindset that I get when I am working on something, I didn\u2019t think about the logical steps it was taking me to get there. I just kept going and working. Once I finished it, I saw it differently. It made me think about some of my previous work, and how much I\u2019ve grown as an artist in the past year. I would never have been able to create something this complex or something I could be as proud of <g class=\"gr_ gr_14 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"14\" data-gr-id=\"14\">in<\/g> the beginning of last year. Working on this made me feel calm and relaxed, bringing me to the realization of why it is associated with meditation; looking at it made me realize my growth.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started my mandala and I was looking at examples, I was thinking, there is no way I can make something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LaylaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}