{"id":2742,"date":"2011-02-02T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:56:19","slug":"portrait-night-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 2\/1 (Babe Ruth)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, another Tuesday portrait night has come and gone. Last night&#8217;s subject: Babe Ruth. I think the inking here is probably the best part of the drawing; the likeness itself isn&#8217;t very good. (I think the overall face shape is the main culprit&#8211;too gaunt\/angular.) Someone on Twitter thought the red\/blue color scheme was an Obama riff. It&#8217;s actually just the result of my using Yankees blue and red for the color palate. I&#8217;d love to tell you this is a mediocre drawing because I &#8220;hate the Yankees&#8221; as folks say, but it&#8217;s actually just because I&#8217;m not great at likenesses&#8230; but that&#8217;s the point of trying to do a likeness once a week, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2743\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2743\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"babe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe-300x272.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2743\" title=\"babe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/02\/babe.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, another Tuesday portrait night has come and gone. Last night&#8217;s subject: Babe Ruth. I think the inking here is probably the best part of the drawing; the likeness itself isn&#8217;t very good. (I think the overall face shape is the main culprit&#8211;too gaunt\/angular.) Someone on Twitter thought the red\/blue color scheme was an Obama &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2742\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}