{"id":49,"date":"2007-02-24T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/02\/24\/the-makko-bird8212-she-is-alive-and-well\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T12:39:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T16:39:52","slug":"the-makko-bird8212-she-is-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"The Makko-Bird\u2014 She is alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the &#8220;Compassion&#8221; exhibit over, Dana and I went to Joan&#8217;s Fourth Street duplex and joined her work crew (after I picked up my collage from EKU and we split a quick Chinese lunch). We tackled the kitchen wood-staining job and then I did various other tasks&#8212;took some steel wool to the leaded-glass window, primed some faux paneling in the foyer, put a second coat on the kick-plate, and touched up the mantle edging. We laughed when the disposal of a used paint roller triggered the unforgotten, ever-dissociated &#8220;Makko-Bird&#8221; declaration. The day flew by and I was totally beat by the time I realized I should quit. Undoubtedly my exhaustion was intensified by the fumes, plus the crash from a wickedly sweet bliss bar that Dana brought back from Starbucks. Joan treated us to a late Mexican dinner and we sang &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2006\/02\/24\">Happy Birthday<\/a>&#8221; to Mombo over the cell phone.\n<\/p>\n<p>These must be the &#8220;good old days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the &#8220;Compassion&#8221; exhibit over, Dana and I went to Joan&#8217;s Fourth Street duplex and joined her work crew (after I picked up my collage from EKU and we split a quick Chinese lunch). We tackled the kitchen wood-staining job and then I did various other tasks&#8212;took some steel wool to the leaded-glass window, primed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,29,36,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}