{"id":12491,"date":"2024-12-13T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:57:36","slug":"song-of-the-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Lark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jules Breton\u2019s &#8220;Song of the Lark&#8221; was deemed the most popular painting in America in a poll conducted in 1934. A young peasant woman stands silently in the flat fields of the artist\u2019s native Normandy as the sun rises, listening to the song of a distant lark. 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