{"id":4877,"date":"2017-03-17T23:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2017-03-18T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T06:22:41","slug":"daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4877]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4878\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/attachment\/stbrigidcross_sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741\" data-orig-size=\"800,741\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"StBrigidCross_sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=584%2C541\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4878\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?resize=300%2C278\" alt=\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?resize=600%2C556 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?resize=768%2C711 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?resize=324%2C300 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid<\/h2>\n<p>Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day, so of course I dress the Cross of St Brigid. I&#8217;ve done this before, but this time I wanted to add some color. I drew this with pencils and colored pencils. Growing up this cross was hanging in a few places, in my Grandma&#8217;s house, and in our own home. More than because my sister is named Brigid, though I know her adornments have something to do with that connection. Also because there are three patron saints of Ireland, and Patrick, the most famous, wasn&#8217;t born there. As the Irish PM reminded us today, he was an immigrant. Brigid and Columba were born there, and Brigid is the only one who also died there. I love the cross too, the interwoven palms that form the cross. It&#8217;s simple and meaningful, like my favorite things of the culture Grandma raised us with.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating St Paddy&#8217;s up here in Canada is interesting. Catholicism is the dominant religion in Canada, a stark contrast to the USA. Granted, a good percentage of those Catholics are French. Yet the Irish descendent population is much smaller than the USA, and that is counting the big Irish population in Quebec. So Paddy&#8217;s day is celebrated pretty much everywhere (in my experience the most thin was in Nova Scotia, gee, wonder why? :) ).<\/p>\n<p>Getting into any Irish pub is tricky. Last year, we didn&#8217;t make it, this year we went during the day, after lunch, and still had to wait 30-45minutes for a table. It wasn&#8217;t too bad though, the beer was flowing and the pipes and drums were playing. I did notice however that the pub was pretty generic in the sense that they had nothing about counties, religion, or even football clubs. Many patrons and workers seemed to think of the day as green mardi gras. It&#8217;s great to have that excitement, but sometimes it is a bit strange to see. Coming from NY where Paddy&#8217;s day is a bit different, celebrated by all, but a lot less irreverent to the culture behind it. At one point today while talking with a friend of mine after she commented on all my green, saying I looked Irish today*. I laughed about being Irish every day, a stranger who seemed to want in on our conversation says &#8220;I&#8217;m actually Irish.&#8221; I nod and say &#8220;Yeah, me too. County Armagh.&#8221; He stopped, stammered, and said &#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m like maybe 10 percent.&#8221; I smiled and said nothing, it&#8217;s not a competition or a one up game. Just sometimes people remember heritage on a party day, and that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>*Grandma used to say, if you can&#8217;t tell I&#8217;m Irish by looking at me, you don&#8217;t deserve to know. And that always made me giggle. Granted she looked more stereotypical Irish than me, and wasn&#8217;t as black Irish looking, and well when asked, she really was Irish, just not descended. In truth, when people ask me what I am I say American. Especially now that I&#8217;m an immigrant and my cultural identity is more American than anything else, and I think that would make Grandma really happy. She wanted to raise her children as American, not Irish. So while I was raised with the culture of my immigrant grandparents (Irish and German) my culture is American. Many Americans don&#8217;t see that as a culture, but when you leave America, you become very aware of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day, so of course I dress the Cross of St Brigid. I&#8217;ve done this before, but this time I wanted to add some color. I drew this with pencils and colored &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[26,27,541],"tags":[1479,462,1896,470,1174,1898,529,1897,58],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-creative","category-daily-creativity-2","tag-art","tag-colored-pencils","tag-cross-of-st-brigid","tag-drawing","tag-my-art","tag-paddys-day","tag-pencils","tag-st-brigid","tag-st-patricks-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy&#039;s Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy&#039;s Day, because when I think on the culture of my family&#039;s Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy&#039;s Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy&#039;s Day, because when I think on the culture of my family&#039;s Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NIMLAS Studios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nuchtchas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Nuchtchas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"741\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nuchtchas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/Nuchtchas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nuchtchas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nuchtchas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nuchtchas\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393\"},\"headline\":\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":599,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741\",\"keywords\":[\"art\",\"colored pencils\",\"cross of st brigid\",\"drawing\",\"my art\",\"paddy's day\",\"pencils\",\"st brigid\",\"St Patrick's Day\"],\"articleSection\":[\"art\",\"creative\",\"Daily Creativity\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393\"},\"description\":\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day, because when I think on the culture of my family's Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741\",\"width\":800,\"height\":741,\"caption\":\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/creative\\\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"NIMLAS Studios\",\"description\":\"nimlas.org = Nuchtchas Is My Lord And Savior\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393\",\"name\":\"Nuchtchas\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nuchtchas\"},\"description\":\"Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\",\"http:\\\/\\\/facebook.com\\\/Nuchtchas\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/Nuchtchas\"],\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/nimlas.org\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/nuchtchas\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day","description":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day, because when I think on the culture of my family's Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day","og_description":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day, because when I think on the culture of my family's Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock","og_url":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/","og_site_name":"NIMLAS Studios","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nuchtchas","article_author":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Nuchtchas","article_published_time":"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":741,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nuchtchas","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/Nuchtchas","twitter_site":"@nuchtchas","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nuchtchas","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/"},"author":{"name":"Nuchtchas","@id":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393"},"headline":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid","datePublished":"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/"},"wordCount":599,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741","keywords":["art","colored pencils","cross of st brigid","drawing","my art","paddy's day","pencils","st brigid","St Patrick's Day"],"articleSection":["art","creative","Daily Creativity"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/","url":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/","name":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741","datePublished":"2017-03-18T03:50:29+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-18T06:22:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393"},"description":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid for St Paddy's Day, because when I think on the culture of my family's Irish roots, this ranks higher than the shamrock","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741","width":800,"height":741,"caption":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-cross-of-st-brigid\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Daily Creativity: Cross of St Brigid"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/","name":"NIMLAS Studios","description":"nimlas.org = Nuchtchas Is My Lord And Savior","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/040f863edd83212195fe6bb5d9221393","name":"Nuchtchas","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f9accb6dec36f035597774a6cb0866763267f16bc87fe636b70b26bfe9071a33?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Nuchtchas"},"description":"Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!","sameAs":["http:\/\/nimlas.org","http:\/\/facebook.com\/Nuchtchas","https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/Nuchtchas"],"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/author\/nuchtchas\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigidCross_sm.jpg?fit=800%2C741","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qyRu-1gF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/art\/st-brigid\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":0},"title":"Daily Creativity: Day Fourteen: St. Brigid","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"March 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of St. Patrick's Day I drew St. Brigid? Well yeah, sorta, I mean who wants to draw some random old man... who also wants to draw some random woman? Well I chose the Saint my sister was named for, who is buried in the same place as St.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"St Brigid","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigid.png?fit=546%2C600&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigid.png?fit=546%2C600&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StBrigid.png?fit=546%2C600&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4362,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-shamrock-st-paddys\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":1},"title":"Daily Creativity: A Shamrock for St Paddy&#8217;s Day!","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"March 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Daily Creativity: A Shamrock for St Paddy's Day! Shamrocks are often associated with the Irish and St Patrick's day, and there is a good reason for that. St Patrick used the shamrock to explain the trinity, and it was one of the things that helped me understand it as a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Daily Creativity: A Shamrock for St Paddy's Day!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ShamrockStPaddys2016-sm.jpg?fit=481%2C600&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3180,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/art\/daily-creativity-rory-stuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":2},"title":"Daily Creativity: Rory is stuck","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"March 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"3\/7\/2014 Inspired by Winnie the Pooh, this is Rory stuck in a snowbank being helped out by Tek. \u00a0Pencils, colored pencils, & ink on paper.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RorystuckinholewTeksm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RorystuckinholewTeksm-300x228.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4874,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-tree-bulb\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":3},"title":"Daily Creativity: Tree Bulb","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"March 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Daily Creativity: Tree Bulb This tree I drew freehand, it's a mix of pencils and colored pencils. I liked the idea of the tree growing out of a bulb, like a tulip. I don't really know what else to say about this piece. Sorry.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Daily Creativity: Tree Bulb","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeBulb_sm.jpg?fit=763%2C1200&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeBulb_sm.jpg?fit=763%2C1200&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeBulb_sm.jpg?fit=763%2C1200&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TreeBulb_sm.jpg?fit=763%2C1200&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5730,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/daily-creativity-2\/daily-creativity-rory-as-nepeta-legion\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":4},"title":"Daily Creativity: Rory as Nepeta Legion","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"March 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Daily Creativity: Rory as Nepeta Legion Rory is dressed as Nepeta Legion in today's creativity. I was working on something else but I became consumed with a young lady I love. I her honor I drew this tonight. Colored pencils and graphite pencils on paper","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Daily Creativity: Rory as Nepeta Legion","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoryAsNepeta_sm.jpg?fit=654%2C1000&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoryAsNepeta_sm.jpg?fit=654%2C1000&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RoryAsNepeta_sm.jpg?fit=654%2C1000&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4233,"url":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/creative\/art\/daily-creativity-steampunk-dragon-rory\/","url_meta":{"origin":4877,"position":5},"title":"Daily Creativity: Steampunk Dragon Rory","author":"Nuchtchas","date":"February 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Daily Creativity: Steampunk Dragon Rory A Steampunk Dragon you ask? I wanted to use my brown micron markers tonight, so I decided to draw something Steampunk. Rory is always a good subject so I thought, if Rory could build himself one thing in the steampunk world, what would it be?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/category\/creative\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Steampunk Dragon Rory - Daily Creativity","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SteampunkDragonRorysm.jpg?fit=429%2C601&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nimlas.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}