{"id":22178,"date":"2026-03-29T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=22178"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:47:34","slug":"no-speakers-corner-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2026\/03\/no-speakers-corner-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Speakers Corner today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Speakers Corner today as we get ready for tomorrows &#8216;Go Bananas&#8217; Holiday Club.<br \/>\nI have decided to dig out my brushes and paints and do a daily sketch board talk as part of the teaching (VVG eat you heart out!)<br \/>\nIt must be 10+ years since I last used them and I will be a little bit nervous as I try to fill in the circles. In case you are wondering, each circle turns into a key point in the story of the Prodigal Son &#8211; e.g. circle one will turn into a coin, circle 2 will turn into a face etc.<br \/>\nDue to pride and lack of artistic ability you won&#8217;t get to see the final masterpiece just this prepared board &#8211; lol<br \/>\nIf you want the whole talk to use sometime, message me and I will send you the full set of pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2026\/03\/no-speakers-corner-today-2\/vgb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vgb-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vgb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vgb-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vgb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vgb.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As VVG once said,<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;If you hear a voice within you say &#8216;you cannot paint,&#8217; then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Speakers Corner today as we get ready for tomorrows &#8216;Go Bananas&#8217; Holiday Club. I have decided to dig out my brushes and paints and do a daily sketch board talk as part of the teaching (VVG eat you heart out!) It must be 10+ years since I last used them and I will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22182,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions\/22182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}