{"id":12757,"date":"2015-07-05T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2015-07-05T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T03:56:22","slug":"all-about-the-persistence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12757","title":{"rendered":"All about the persistence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The struggle with nature is sometimes a bit like what Shakespeare calls \u201cthe taming of the shrew\u201d (which means wearing down the opposition, bon gr\u00e9 et mal gr\u00e9 [willy-nilly]). In many fields, but especially in drawing, I think that \u201cserrer de pr\u00e8s vaut mieux que l\u00e2cher\u201d [<b><i><u>persistence is better than surrender<\/u><\/i><\/b>].<br \/>\nVincent VanGogh to his brother Theo. Etten, 12-15 October 1881<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I read this I thought a big WOW even though my brain could not make sense of the translation. Figuring it was an idiom I went searching for it. Finally I went to the online collection of letters and there was a much more reasonable version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6790.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6790.png\" title=\"...I think that delving deeply into something is better than letting it go.\" width=\"500\" height=\"645\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;I think that delving deeply into something is better than letting it go.&#8221; \u2014 Vincent VanGogh  <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5,154,51],"tags":[192,224,436],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badass-ness","category-from-the-quote-box","category-the-creative-process","tag-process","tag-quote","tag-vangogh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}