{"id":348,"date":"2005-08-31T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/wp\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-09-05T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:08:00","slug":"honor-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2005\/08\/honor-self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Honor&#8221; (Self-Portrait)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_349\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/honor_self-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349\" title=\"honor_self-portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/honor_self-portrait-149x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/honor_self-portrait-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/honor_self-portrait-74x150.jpg 74w, https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/honor_self-portrait.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Honor&#8221; Acrylic (12&#8243;x24&#8243;) 2005<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Significant to my self-portrait in the painting is the eagle feather, with its stem beaded in the colors of the Vietnam Campaign medal.<\/p>\n<p>I was a Marine Corps rifleman in Vietnam. Some friendships developed into something even deeper than brotherhood. One such bond was with Ernie LaMone, a full-blooded Navajo affectionately known as &#8220;Little Chief&#8221;. When I left Vietnam, I never thought about seeing or not seeing those people again \u2013 it was all about making it home safe.<\/p>\n<p>Over 25 years later, Ernie and I came together again for our company&#8217;s first reunion. He presented me with the eagle feather, represented in the painting, as a gift of honor from one warrior to another. The apocalyptic sky in the painting represents war and unites the spirits of our past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant to my self-portrait in the painting is the eagle feather, with its stem beaded in the colors of the Vietnam Campaign medal. I was a Marine Corps rifleman in Vietnam. Some friendships developed into something even deeper than brotherhood. One such bond was with Ernie LaMone, a full-blooded Navajo affectionately known as &#8220;Little Chief&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portraits","category-war-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}