{"id":1578,"date":"2024-06-12T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:33:06","slug":"the-pink-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/the-pink-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"The pink bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 7 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amber is 10 years old today. For her birthday, her parents organized a mystery trip. They chose a city on a human scale, a place that makes you dream with its little houses of all colors, its canals\u2026. They took the car to go to the Netherlands, to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Amber is a wise\nlittle girl, very wise. And reasonable too, very reasonable. For the\nroad, about 5 hours if all goes well, she took a book Warriors<\/em>\nwritten by Erin Hunter, a magnificent story with cats, her favorite\npet. Her parents take breaks, a little hot drink to warm up. And to\nhave fun together, there\u2019s nothing like singing their heads off 80s\nhits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The destination is\nwithin sight. Amber, who has absolutely no knowledge of this country,\nis amazed. They park in front of their rental, about 10 minutes walk\nfrom the ferry which will take them to the grand central station and\nfrom there, they can go anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have not\nplanned a visit to museums, that will be for next time. They favored\nthe spontaneity and desires of their only daughter. Amber can’t\nbelieve it. She is very moved and delighted to be there. So close to\nthe sea, she thinks she is dreaming. She sets out to explore the\ncity. She turns right, left. She is excited by the windows of the\nsmall shops in the Nine Streets district. For lunch, the little\nfamily chooses a restaurant that offers fabulous toasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right next door,\n\u201cParisian\u201d, a jewelry boutique that delights Amber and her\nmother. Of course, they push open the door and after a long visit,\nthey come out with a pretty package each. Hey, a painting gallery.\nOh, and what a nice surprise, some artists are French. This is an\nopportunity to get to know each other and become familiar with art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they take a\nbridge to get to the other side of the city, Amber is fascinated by\nan unusual object, attached to a lamp post. It\u2019s a pink bike,\ndecorated with pink artificial flowers as well. It\u2019s love at first\nsight for the little girl. She stands right in front of it and is\nunable to move. She would really like to have the same one. What she\ndoesn’t know is that it’s her birthday present…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 7 inch \u2013 Unique work Amber is 10 years old today. For her birthday, her parents organized a mystery trip. They chose a city on a human scale, a place that makes you dream with its little houses of all colors, its canals\u2026. They took the car to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}