{"id":11179,"date":"2024-02-16T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:44:07","slug":"physical-reactions-to-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/02\/16\/physical-reactions-to-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical reactions to beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11180\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11180\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler.jpg\" alt=\"Hardanger Filling Stitches Sampler\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MaryC-sampler-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler by Yvette Stanton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;That sampler at the end&#8230;! Oh my word. It&#8217;s stunning! I know this is going to sound weird, but every time I look at the sampler, my heart noticeably palpitates.&#8221; Mary wrote this in an email to me, and then said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a good thing or a bad thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the fact that I feel that Mary should get herself checked out medically, if she actually thinks there might be some sort of heart\/nervous\/adrenaline issue, I think this is an exceptionally lovely compliment. (Thank you, Mary!)<\/p>\n<p>We can be moved to tears by a beautiful artwork. I love the feeling of goosebumps &#8211; the frisson &#8211; I get when my friend Kathy&#8217;s voice harmonises with mine when we sing together, or when I hear a beautiful choral work. We can feel a reaction to beauty in a physical manner. So I think it is entirely reasonable that embroidery that Mary finds beautiful can give her heart palpitations.<\/p>\n<p>Do you experience a reaction to beauty in a bodily manner? What does it for you, and how do you experience it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-11180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler by Yvette Stanton<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That sampler at the end&#8230;! Oh my word. It&#8217;s stunning! I know this is going to sound weird, but every time I look at the sampler, my heart noticeably palpitates.&#8221; Mary wrote this in an email to me, and then said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,6,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-embroidery-musings","category-hardanger","category-hardanger-filling-stitches-white-threads","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11183,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}