{"id":3347,"date":"2010-12-24T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2010-12-24T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T19:42:05","slug":"the-first-noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST NOEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3348\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5ItNxpwChE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3348  \" title=\"Van Dycke Behind the First Noel\" src=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Van-Dycke-Behind-the-First-Noel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Noel - van Dyck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 \u2013 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England.\u00a0 He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait painting for the next 150 years.\u00a0 He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching.\u00a0 [From Wikipedia]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/vandyckselfportrait2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3349\" title=\"vandyckselfportrait\" src=\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/vandyckselfportrait2-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Self Portrait With a Sunflower<\/em> showing the gold collar and medal King Charles I gave him in 1633. The sunflower may represent the king, or royal patronage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 \u2013 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England.\u00a0 He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[277,276],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-the-first-noel","tag-van-dyck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}