{"id":2788,"date":"2022-03-03T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2022-03-03T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:10:08","slug":"march-exclusion-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2788","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cA man is never such an egoist as at moments of spiritual exaltation, when it seems to him that there is nothing in the world more splendid and fascinating than himself.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Leo Tolstoy, <em>The Cossacks<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waynewhiteart.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last night\u2019s documentary<\/a> provides a burst of self assurance for today\u2019s outlook. I decided to create a miniature for the local Tiny Art fundraiser \u2014 a \u201cprime-the-pumper\u201d that fits my current momentum in the studio, with no lasting significance intended. On the other hand, after having seen my show in Lexington, Danny handed a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/241902.The_Cloud_of_Unknowing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em><\/a> to me, out the window of his truck. \u201cThis is going to sound over the top, but it\u2019s just the way it is,\u201d he said, a whiff of diesel exhaust hanging in the unseasonably warm air. \u201cI\u2019m loaning this book to you for ten years.\u201d Something suggests that it may be one of the most important things to happen during this interval of my life.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Luminous, high-altitude popcorn clouds sailing above vessels of deep purple-gray, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> as Apollo\u2019s blazing chariot plunges beyond the edge of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA man is never such an egoist as at moments of spiritual exaltation, when it seems to him that there is nothing in the world more splendid and fascinating than himself.\u201d \u2013 Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks &nbsp; Last night\u2019s documentary provides a burst of self assurance for today\u2019s outlook. I decided to create a miniature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,69,40,44,73,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"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=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}