{"id":551,"date":"2012-10-10T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=551"},"modified":"2018-02-26T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:47:33","slug":"mao-mom-and-cherry-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/551","title":{"rendered":"Mao, Mom, and Cherry Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cGet the facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Mark Twain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I live and work in a 90-year-old bungalow in downtown Danville, Kentucky. Tomorrow night, a couple blocks from my studio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centre.edu\/centredebate2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre College<\/a> will host the 2012 Vice Presidential debate between Joseph Biden and Paul Ryan. A few of us will walk over to campus, set up chairs, and view the contest on a big screen. After the event, there will be a free outdoor concert by the Marshall Tucker Band.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it: the most political entry you will ever see at this site. God bless America.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dixon_MaoMom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dixon_MaoMom.jpg\" alt=\"Mao, Mom, and Cherry Pie by J A Dixon\" title=\"Mao, Mom, and Cherry Pie by J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dixon_MaoMom.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dixon_MaoMom-300x306.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 19px; margin-bottom: 33px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Mao, Mom, and Cherry Pie<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.5 x 4.5 inches<br \/>\ncollection of J Hellyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGet the facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain I live and work in a 90-year-old bungalow in downtown Danville, Kentucky. Tomorrow night, a couple blocks from my studio, Centre College will host the 2012 Vice Presidential debate between Joseph Biden and Paul Ryan. A few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10516,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/10516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}