{"id":3781,"date":"2023-08-19T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenniferlangart.com\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:59:17","slug":"houston-water-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferlangart.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/houston-water-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Water Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sometimes an image captures my eye and I feel compelled to recreate it and that’s how I felt when I saw a picture of the Houston Water Wall in our local newspaper, the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sometimes an image captures my eye and I feel compelled to recreate it and that’s how I felt when I saw a picture of the Houston Water Wall in our local newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. I used illustration board for the structures.\u00a0 I like it because it’s thick and sturdy enough for walls, but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_page_container_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_sidebar_layout":"customizer","zakra_remove_content_margin":false,"zakra_sidebar":"customizer","zakra_transparent_header":"customizer","zakra_logo":0,"zakra_main_header_style":"default","zakra_menu_item_color":"","zakra_menu_item_hover_color":"","zakra_menu_item_active_color":"","zakra_menu_active_style":"","zakra_page_header":true,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,31],"tags":[49,148,171,206,205,204],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cigar-box-collection","category-hot-off-the-easel","tag-acrylic-paint","tag-art","tag-cigar-box","tag-embossing","tag-houston-water-wall","tag-model-building"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3876,"url":"https:\/\/jenniferlangart.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/houston-oil\/","url_meta":{"origin":3781,"position":0},"title":"Houston Oil","author":"jenniferlang","date":"08\/23\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Houston, Texas was built on oil.\u00a0 Well, technically it was built on a swamp, but it's oil that brought life to this town. 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