{"id":4319,"date":"2025-11-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:54","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-city-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/11\/sketch-of-the-week-city-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a city tree (Sketch of the Week for Week 46 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can never decide if these little guys are extremely sad, or sort of inspiring. They&#8217;re stunted and twisted by their constraints, but also tenacious despite insurmountable concrete limitations. <\/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\/2025\/11\/IMG_3906.jpeg\" alt=\"Pencil sketch of a little city tree next to a planter and a parking sign\" class=\"wp-image-4320\" width=\"245\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3906.jpeg 981w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3906-300x256.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3906-768x654.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 85vw, 245px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking at this, you&#8217;re almost by definition just a twisty little city tree like me. And, now that I think about it, probably that tree\u2014which I&#8217;ve regularly walked past for maybe 30 years now\u2014doesn&#8217;t have too high an opinion of me: I could literally go anywhere in the world, and haven&#8217;t gotten any farther than he has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>What a fucking judgy-ass tree, amirght? Fuck him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can never decide if these little guys are extremely sad, or sort of inspiring. They&#8217;re stunted and twisted by their constraints, but also tenacious despite insurmountable concrete limitations. If you&#8217;re looking at this, you&#8217;re almost by definition just a twisty little city tree like me. And, now that I think about it, probably that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/11\/sketch-of-the-week-city-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just a city tree (Sketch of the Week for Week 46 of 2025)&#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":[113,1163,1164,1026,904,572,1162,1025,1024,1027],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115588281748446143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319"}],"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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}