{"id":31567,"date":"2020-04-03T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31567"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:11:41","slug":"briefly-blue-and-green-can-match-even-if-a-stuffy-art-teacher-didnt-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31567","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Blue and green can match, even if a stuffy art teacher didn\u2019t think so"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring always reminds me how glorious blue skies and green leaves can be. When I was in the second grade, Mrs. Arnold chastised me for using those colors together. She said they didn\u2019t match. Mrs. Arnold had very specific rules about which colors could be used together. We couldn\u2019t deviate from her rules. When I used green and blue together in one of my class drawings, she forced me to do it over, since she said those colors shouldn\u2019t be used together. I was a polite and obedient child, but I asked her why they didn\u2019t match \u2014 since God used them together in nature. She was exasperated and told me to follow her rules. So when I see glorious beauty which mixes green and blue \u2014 such as this photo I took just outside my office Friday afternoon \u2014 it always reminds me of Mrs. Arnold. It reminds me that she was wrong. And it\u2019s a good reminder for us all. There are established rules about a lot of things. Many of those are good rules. But if an expert tells you something and you know he\u2019s wrong, you might need to take a chance. He might be just as mistaken as Mrs. Arnold was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring always reminds me how glorious blue skies and green leaves can be. When I was in the second grade, Mrs. Arnold chastised me for using those colors together. She said they didn\u2019t match. Mrs. Arnold had very specific rules about which colors could be used together. We couldn\u2019t deviate from her rules. When I Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8d9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31570,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567\/revisions\/31570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}