{"id":4272,"date":"2014-08-21T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2014-08-22T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T00:34:54","slug":"still-more-from-the-haus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4272","title":{"rendered":"Still more from the Haus . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cGiving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Andrew Weil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For good or ill, I have reduced gift-giving to a flagrant simplicity: the personal collage miniature, disguised as a greeting card. I adopted the practice long ago and, so far, I seem to be getting away with it.<br \/> <br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_PoolPartied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_PoolPartied.jpg\" title=\"Pool Partied ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_PoolPartied.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_PoolPartied-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 264px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Pool Partied<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of B Morris<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_Pancreation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_Pancreation.jpg\" title=\"Pancreation ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"306\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_Pancreation.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_Pancreation-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 312px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Pancreation<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of M J Bowling<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_BuddhasAndHunks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_BuddhasAndHunks.jpg\" title=\"Buddhas and Hunks ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_BuddhasAndHunks.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_BuddhasAndHunks-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 277px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Buddhas and Hunks<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of M Higggins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_SuperTim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_SuperTim.jpg\" title=\"SuperTim ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"310\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_SuperTim.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dixon_SuperTim-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 305px; margin-bottom: 50px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>SuperTim<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\ncollection of T Rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGiving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.\u201d \u2015 Andrew Weil For good or ill, I have reduced gift-giving to a flagrant simplicity: the personal collage miniature, disguised as a greeting card. I adopted the practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,23,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272"}],"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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}