{"id":3604,"date":"2019-06-03T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:29:38","slug":"van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have always liked Van Gogh, the way he captured nature and human expressions.  I hope someday I will get to visit the  Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. While reading: Van Gogh letters to Theo (his brother), I got to know more about him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>He died (killed himself by cutting his ear), remaining poor. <\/li><li>He was dependent on Theo, his brother from emotional and financial support.<\/li><li>In early days he wanted to be a preacher but since he failed the exams so never got the job. <\/li><li> He failed in love many times.<\/li><li> He was eccentric.<\/li><li> His art teachers\/mentors(yup, the finest artist had teachers), disliked his way of paintings.<\/li><li> He called himself a peasant painter and lived a good part of his life with the peasants, miners. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I could not bear the pain in reading those letters. I have left reading it half way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The positive side of reading this book is, my respect for artists has increased much more. I will prefer not bargaining for buying their artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked Van Gogh, the way he captured nature and human expressions. I hope someday I will get to visit the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. While reading: Van Gogh letters to Theo (his brother), I got to know more about him. He died (killed himself by cutting his ear), remaining poor. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/van-gogh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Van Gogh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}