{"id":567,"date":"2011-10-21T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:12:10","slug":"inspiration-festival-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/inspiration-festival-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"inspiration: festival of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/color-for-fall\/\">I mentioned how color is back for fall<\/a> and how happy I am about that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about color recently, and I keep coming back to images of the festival of color, or Holi, that occurs every year in India. At the festival, participants celebrate by throwing pigments at each other. The result is the most amazing cacocphany of color I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/holi-festival\/4306442226\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-568\" title=\"Festival of color, Holi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306442226_21b07ffa34_z-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Festival of color, Holi\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306442226_21b07ffa34_z-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306442226_21b07ffa34_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306442226_21b07ffa34_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/holi-festival\/4305699365\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-569\" title=\"Festival of Color, Holi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4305699365_2cc3979ace_z-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"Festival of Color, Holi\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4305699365_2cc3979ace_z-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4305699365_2cc3979ace_z-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4305699365_2cc3979ace_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/holi-festival\/4306411250\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-570\" title=\"Festival of Color, Holi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306411250_d207cd2eb0_z-400x599.jpg\" alt=\"Festival of Color, Holi\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306411250_d207cd2eb0_z-400x599.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306411250_d207cd2eb0_z-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4306411250_d207cd2eb0_z.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All these images come from a Flickr group by Barsana Nandagon. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/holi-festival\/with\/4306411250\/\" target=\"_blank\">many more images from the Festival<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>We could use a holiday like this ourselves, couldn&#8217;t we? What better excuse for a celebration than simply the fabulousness of the color around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I mentioned how color is back for fall and how happy I am about that. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about color recently, and I keep coming back to images of the festival of color, or &hellip; <a class=\"moreLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/inspiration-festival-of-color\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}