{"id":1220,"date":"2011-12-30T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/12\/30\/various-sundry-part-eighty-six\/"},"modified":"2013-01-01T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T20:35:53","slug":"various-sundry-part-eighty-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1220","title":{"rendered":"Various &#038; Sundry, part eighty-six"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I do not write regularly in my journal&#8230; I see no reason why I should. I see no reason why any one should have the slightest sense of duty in such a matter.<br \/>\n\u2014Occupant of The Hall Bedroom (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;  Year of 2011 workout totals: Swim-49; Bike-29; Powerwalk-25; Run-0; Lift-1; Pilates-0; Yoga-6; Lupus Drills-9<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;  A good showing for the year with my swimming (48+ should be the minimum for any activity), but a poor biking total leaves me with an overall sense of disappointment. I know the reasons, and will attempt to correct them in the coming year \u2014 an earlier start, twice weekly rides, and a better finish to the season. If I have any hope of mounting a milestone event for the big six-oh, it starts next week. I can\u2019t let the cold weather deter a regular schedule. My shoulder is finally healed, and that opens up the strong possibility of a satisfactory lifting year. I have all the incentives to make this a banner cycle. Get on with it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;  The top exhibitions of the year? It begins and ends, of course, with \u201cColor and Collage,\u201d the Kurt Schwitters show at the Berkeley Art Museum. The display of California Impressionist paintings at the DAI and the major show we saw in Nashville, \u201cThe Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Mus\u00e9e D\u2019Orsay\u201d were both highly memorable. Add to that the \u201cRough Roads\u201d retrospective of Bob and Ted\u2019s Kentucky photos from the 70s, plus all the art Dana and I experienced in the Bay Area this fall, makes me realize I can\u2019t complain about the opportunities of the previous year. Perhaps it\u2019s true that we needed to balance the general rotten quality of 2011 by seeking out more great art. If so, that\u2019s just fine, and we should keep it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Sundry&amp;submit=Search\">V &amp; S<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not write regularly in my journal&#8230; I see no reason why I should. I see no reason why any one should have the slightest sense of duty in such a matter. \u2014Occupant of The Hall Bedroom (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) &#8212; Year of 2011 workout totals: Swim-49; Bike-29; Powerwalk-25; Run-0; Lift-1; Pilates-0; Yoga-6; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}