{"id":18578,"date":"2026-01-12T18:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:18:34","slug":"and-2026-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/01\/and-2026-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And 2026 Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, some friends in my building organized an afternoon pop up and I pull all the goodies out for a show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-6-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-6-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-6-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-6-1-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-6-1-399x300.jpeg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a fun afternoon, meeting some new people and chatting with friends. The fish were on another sofa and I forgot to take their photo. I made some new ones because the Holiday season had left my stock depleted. Here are the first 2-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-1-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-1-399x300.jpeg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A pink fish and a red fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-5.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-5-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-5-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-5-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-4.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-3.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-3-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-3-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-2.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-12-fish-2-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, some friends in my building organized an afternoon pop up and I pull all the goodies out for a show. It was a fun afternoon, meeting some new people and chatting with friends. The fish were on another sofa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/01\/and-2026-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18586,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions\/18586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}