{"id":4030,"date":"2024-12-11T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:31:29","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-young-thinking-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-young-thinking-gorilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: The Thinking Man&#8217;s Gorilla (December 3, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to a split decision\/ranked-choice vote, this week&#8217;s sketch is the thinking man&#8217;s gorilla (based on a blurry snapshot from the Columbus Zoo):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-gorilla-IMG_2600-copy-2-1024x818.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a thoughtful gorilla\" class=\"wp-image-4039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-gorilla-IMG_2600-copy-2-1024x818.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-gorilla-IMG_2600-copy-2-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-gorilla-IMG_2600-copy-2-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-gorilla-IMG_2600-copy-2.jpeg 1081w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My son favored either the gorilla sketch (above) or the sketch of my wife in a bucket hat (below) Meanwhile, I preferred either the gorilla (above) or this sketch of my wife based on a photo we took this past Halloween (way down below). Thus, despite an abundance of qualified women, we wound up with a gorilla on top. Democracy is an imperfect system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-hat-IMG_2600-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"an aloof woman in a bucket hat\" class=\"wp-image-4038\" width=\"241\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-hat-IMG_2600-copy.jpeg 963w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-hat-IMG_2600-copy-300x249.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-hat-IMG_2600-copy-768x636.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 85vw, 241px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>my wife in a bucket hat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-smile-IMG_2600-copy-3.jpeg\" alt=\"a smiling woman who likes her bangs\" class=\"wp-image-4040\" width=\"193\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-smile-IMG_2600-copy-3.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-smile-IMG_2600-copy-3-254x300.jpeg 254w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/sketch-smile-IMG_2600-copy-3-768x907.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 85vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>my wife humoring her husband<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a split decision\/ranked-choice vote, this week&#8217;s sketch is the thinking man&#8217;s gorilla (based on a blurry snapshot from the Columbus Zoo): My son favored either the gorilla sketch (above) or the sketch of my wife in a bucket hat (below) Meanwhile, I preferred either the gorilla (above) or this sketch of my wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-young-thinking-gorilla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: The Thinking Man&#8217;s Gorilla (December 3, 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,990,1026,1066,1065,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113635077148139592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}