{"id":8553,"date":"2015-02-22T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T21:43:29","slug":"reasons-to-dislike-where-i-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to dislike where I live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides the snow, cold rains, distance from the mountains, distance from the ocean, and weird roads, there isn’t much I regret about moving to Edmonton all those years ago. But one of the reasons I chose Edmonton over, say, Calgary was the arts and culture scene. And over the years big oil in C-town and a general malaise in the E-town scene has slowly eroded the benefit of Edmonton over other locales.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, it is always so tempting to play the\u00a0grass is greener game when you read about art etc. in the big big-cities. I mean why don’t we have an exhibit of 16th-19th century cat art? Huh! Why!<\/p>\n

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This is so awesome! The Japanese Society gallery in NYC (333 East 47th Street\u00a0New York, NY) is hosting the following exhibit of woodblock prints this spring:<\/p>\n

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LIFE OF CATS: SELECTIONS FROM THE HIRAKI UKIYO-E COLLECTION<\/h2>\n

Fri, Mar 13 \u2013 Sun, Jun 7, 2015<\/strong>
\nSince arriving in Japan aboard Japanese ships transporting sacred Buddhist scriptures from China in the mid-sixth century, cats have proceeded to purr and paw their way into the heart of Japanese life, folklore, and art. Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection<\/em> illustrates the depth of this mutual attraction by mining the wealth of bravura depictions of cats to be found in ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Edo Period (1615-1867).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see how this would be cause for jealousy in any lover of art\/cats\/woodblock printing.<\/p>\n

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Be sure to visit the Gallery site<\/a> and flip through the whimsical and amusing prints; you just won’t have that many chances in life to empathize with a 19th century Japanese dude like this.<\/p>\n

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Besides the snow, cold rains, distance from the mountains, distance from the ocean, and weird roads, there isn’t much I regret about moving to Edmonton all those years ago. But one of the reasons I chose Edmonton over, say, Calgary was the arts and culture scene. And over the years big oil in C-town and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}