{"id":2942,"date":"2013-08-04T07:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/08\/moonbeams\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:28:57","slug":"moonbeams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/08\/moonbeams\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonbeams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often, when visitors to the gallery are deciding on a purchase, they are attracted at first to a particular photograph but then feel the need to view more of them before circling back to their original selection.&#0160; What&#39;s interesting is that, when they then seek to describe why they came back to their original choice, words fail them &#8212; they can&#39;t articulate specific reasons &#8211; they just do.<\/p>\n<p>I came across a quote by author Steven King, about the subtle art of the opening sentence, that helps explain why gallery customers may have such trouble talking about their choice:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &quot;To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often, when visitors to the gallery are deciding on a purchase, they are attracted at first to a particular photograph but then feel the need to view more of them before circling back to their original selection.&#0160; What&#39;s interesting is that, when they then seek to describe why they came back to their original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}