{"id":3216,"date":"2015-07-26T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2015-07-26T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:14:23","slug":"beneficial-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"Beneficial Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got photos of &#8220;Beneficial Burn&#8221; which I have been beading and finishing up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BeneficialBurn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BeneficialBurn-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"BeneficialBurn\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BeneficialBurn-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BeneficialBurn.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Burning of the grasslands is common here in the Flinthills and is done to improve the land.\u00a0 I learned when &#8220;Prairie Fire&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prairiefire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prairiefire-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"prairiefire\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prairiefire-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prairiefire.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>was honored at Houston with the Fairfield Award For Contemporary Artistry, that some people view fire as destructive and tragic, but here it is done on purpose and is controlled, so it is a good thing, thus the name!\u00a0 And very beautiful to behold, especially at night!<\/p>\n<p>I like how the beads catch the light and give a bit of subtle spark effect as you walk past it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BurnBeading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BurnBeading-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"BurnBeading\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BurnBeading-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BurnBeading.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of time and hand work involved, but worth it, I think. Finishing at 59.5 x 28&#8243;, it is a nice size and a panoramic view of the prairie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got photos of &#8220;Beneficial Burn&#8221; which I have been beading and finishing up. Burning of the grasslands is common here in the Flinthills and is done to improve the land.\u00a0 I learned when &#8220;Prairie Fire&#8221; was honored at Houston with the Fairfield Award For Contemporary Artistry, that some people view fire as destructive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,27],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beading","tag-finished"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}