{"id":858,"date":"2012-07-20T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/index.php\/?p=858"},"modified":"2012-07-20T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:26:58","slug":"mediterranean-masterpiece-crystal-cruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Mediterranean Masterpiece&quot; Crystal Cruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the Crystal Cruises Gala, aboard Crystal Serenity from Istanbul, Turkey to Monte Carlo, Monaco, July 1- July 13; I set sail with 12 glorious days of inspiration from my waking hours prior sunrise to twilight moonrises. Visiting the exquisite ports of Mykonos, Athens, Navplion Taormina, Sorrento and Civitavecchia;<br \/>\nI captured the voyage via <a href=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/fine_art\/scenic-paintings\/\">watercolors<\/a>, journal sketches and poetry in my first <a href=\"http:\/\/share.shutterfly.com\/action\/welcome?sid=0QctWbFmyZNXfQ\" target=\"_blank\">Shutterfly published journal<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-859 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/freemanart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/val-paint-monte-carlo.jpg\" alt=\"val-paint-monte-carlo\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also aboard was avidcruiser Ralph Grizzle with his son Alex, experiencing and writing posts, here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avidcruiser.com\/2012\/08\/09\/at-artist-at-work-on-crystal-serenity-mediterranean-masterpieces-by-valerie-freeman\/#commentshttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to a review Ralph wrote about my inspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the Crystal Cruises Gala, aboard Crystal Serenity from Istanbul, Turkey to Monte Carlo, Monaco, July 1- July 13; I set sail with 12 glorious days of inspiration from my waking hours prior sunrise to twilight moonrises. Visiting the exquisite ports of Mykonos, Athens, Navplion Taormina, Sorrento and Civitavecchia; I<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/?p=858\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.freemanart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}