{"id":1844,"date":"2013-06-18T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2017-08-16T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:44:13","slug":"a-chicken-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1844","title":{"rendered":"A Chicken Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNot what we give, but what we share,<br \/>\nFor the gift without the giver is bare.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 James Russell Lowell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My thanks to fellow collage artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathleen-obrien.com\/\" title=\"Kathleen O\u2019Brien Studio\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen O\u2019Brien<\/a>, who kindly bestowed on me a delightful trove of vintage poultry. By all appearances, the various hens, roosters, ducks, and geese were scissored from multiple sources many years ago, often less than expertly, and compiled for some anticipated project. Why this collection was passed along or sold, with an original intent abandoned, can never be known, but my friend felt that the ingredients were more suited to my artistic activity than hers, so now I am the fortunate steward of a silent menagerie. <a href=\"http:\/\/hopekroll.com\/index.html\" title=\"Hope Kroll ~ Collagiste\" target=\"_blank\">Hope Kroll<\/a>, the \u201cpaper surgeon,\u201d could undoubtedly exploit the entire mass of images in one fell swoop, but I am more likely to apply them in a trickle. Here is the first collage that benefits from the acquisition:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dixon_Chicken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dixon_Chicken.jpg\" title=\"A Chicken Involved ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dixon_Chicken.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dixon_Chicken-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 335px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>A Chicken Involved<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4 x 4 inches<br \/>\ncollection of R Gilpin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.\u201d \u2014 James Russell Lowell My thanks to fellow collage artist, Kathleen O\u2019Brien, who kindly bestowed on me a delightful trove of vintage poultry. By all appearances, the various hens, roosters, ducks, and geese were scissored from multiple sources many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,22,18,4,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}