{"id":8136,"date":"2016-05-22T22:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:34","slug":"small-and-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8136","title":{"rendered":"Small and simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the more I concentrate, the smaller and simpler\u00a0my glass pieces become.<\/p>\n<p>They are trying to tell me a story. In just a couple of inches, or less.<\/p>\n<p>Hands praying, asking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8141 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Prayer-hands-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prayer hands\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Prayer-hands-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Prayer-hands.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spirit flying above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8137 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Above-us-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Above us\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Above-us-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Above-us-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Above-us-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Above-us.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A worker waving goodbye at the border.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/At-the-border-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"At the border\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/At-the-border-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/At-the-border.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a face. Just a face. Smiling\u00a0a little, maybe. Something else, maybe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Face-Off-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"Face Off\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Face-Off-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Face-Off-768x1297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Face-Off-606x1024.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Face-Off.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 2014. I think that&#8217;s the year these stories began to emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the more I concentrate, the smaller and simpler\u00a0my glass pieces become. They are trying to tell me a story. In just a couple of inches, or less. Hands praying, asking. A spirit flying above. A worker waving goodbye at the border. And a face. Just a face. Smiling\u00a0a little, maybe. Something else, maybe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8136\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small and simple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,316],"tags":[36,591,35,888,284,983,576],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-improvisation","tag-36","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-black","tag-glass","tag-story","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}