{"id":1412,"date":"2019-06-07T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2019-06-07T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:15:56","slug":"head-studies-4-felix-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2019\/06\/head-studies-4-felix-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Head studies 4: Felix faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My people don\u2019t smile.<\/p>\n<p>They hardly ever smile, that is. Not big toothy grins.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a childhood accident (think Raina Telgemeier\u2019s <em>Smile<\/em> comic, only more dramatic and traumatic), I quite literally can\u2019t smile one of those big, wide, all-teeth end-to-end grins people are supposed to use to show they\u2019re friendly and good and worth interaction. I\u2019m not used to seeing it in a mirror, and not used to drawing it. My crop of Romans just don\u2019t think grinning fits in with proper <em>gravitas<\/em>. Although, from time to time, Felix has given a snarky grin. Sure, there are grinning satyrs capering about, but, really, think about it: How often have you seen a bust of a Caesar or Alexander the Great with a grin?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/79E96FC0-4C8A-4F2B-8D4D-F10E32F41B9D.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/79E96FC0-4C8A-4F2B-8D4D-F10E32F41B9D-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/79E96FC0-4C8A-4F2B-8D4D-F10E32F41B9D-768x1024.png 768w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/79E96FC0-4C8A-4F2B-8D4D-F10E32F41B9D-225x300.png 225w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/79E96FC0-4C8A-4F2B-8D4D-F10E32F41B9D.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My people don\u2019t smile. They hardly ever smile, that is. Not big toothy grins. Because of a childhood accident (think Raina Telgemeier\u2019s Smile comic, only more dramatic and traumatic), I quite literally can\u2019t smile one of those big, wide, all-teeth[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2019\/06\/head-studies-4-felix-faces\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[9,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}