{"id":4215,"date":"2026-07-19T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:25:11","slug":"sunday-verses-kind-of-blue-red-and-yellow-7-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Kind of Blue, Red and Yellow&#8217; (7\/19\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been hiding up there for years, \/ folded over and dusty, \/ atop the tall bookcase \/ next to the front windows.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4217\" style=\"width: 104px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/profilepastel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/profilepastel-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/profilepastel-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/profilepastel.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;KIND OF BLUE, Red and Yellow&#8217; (2016), pastel, T. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while \/ what it was or what it is \u2014 \/ like Schrodinger&#8217;s pastel pussycat \/ boxed up for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t bother to ask the artist; \/ it has been a decade (or two) \/ since she put pencil to paper \/ and sketched the iconic scene.<\/p>\n<p>Time flies, as wise Ben Franklin said, \/ foregoing the bit about fun; \/ another saying he coined \/ was to mind your business.<\/p>\n<p>What the artwork was meant to be \/ is neither here nor there; \/ what it is and will become \/ is all that really matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS It&#8217;s been hiding up there for years, \/ folded over and dusty, \/ atop the tall bookcase \/ next to the front windows. I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while \/ what it was or what it is \u2014 \/ like Schrodinger&#8217;s pastel pussycat \/ boxed up for posterity. I didn&#8217;t bother to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Kind of Blue, Red and Yellow&#8217; (7\/19\/2026)<\/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-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}