{"id":1227,"date":"2011-11-22T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/11\/22\/to-california-by-train-part-four\/"},"modified":"2012-01-15T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:37:42","slug":"to-california-by-train-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1227","title":{"rendered":"to California by train ~ part four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lay in bed this morning, waiting for the sun to come up, so I guess my body still hasn\u2019t adjusted itself to the time difference. On another level, I couldn\u2019t wait for the day to begin \u2014 and what a day it has been! After preparing more revised documents for the Community Trails Committee back home (I\u2019m all set up for online work in the Breidenbach office), we made an outing to the Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento. I got to see my first Thiebaud and Kondos originals, in addition to many other stimulating artworks. I was stunned by a large Rockwell Kent (he painted the site in Greenland after reaching it by dogsled) and stumbled upon one of the most masterful watercolors I\u2019ve seen in person: \u201cCalifornia Oak and Carmel Mission\u201d by Francis McComas. How could I have never realized that the capital of this unique state would have such extraordinary art to experience? Is the light different here? Something about the sun on the autumn trees across from the Crocker seemed especially unusual.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/crocker.gif' alt='Crocker Art Museum' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lay in bed this morning, waiting for the sun to come up, so I guess my body still hasn\u2019t adjusted itself to the time difference. On another level, I couldn\u2019t wait for the day to begin \u2014 and what a day it has been! After preparing more revised documents for the Community Trails Committee back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,16,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}