{"id":268,"date":"2005-12-13T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2005-12-13T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T09:36:00","slug":"2005-12-11-lionel-murcotts-birthday-party-blairgowrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2005-12-11-lionel-murcotts-birthday-party-blairgowrie\/","title":{"rendered":"2005-12-11 Lionel Murcott&#8217;s birthday party, Blairgowrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/72495968\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/34\/72495968_7cba3f90f4_m.jpg?w=605\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;\" >  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/72495968\/\">2005-12-11 Emilia Murcott<\/a> <br \/> Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/56788416@N00\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>S and I trundled off on Sunday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/72489815\/\">Lionel Murcott<\/a>&#8216;s birthday party. He&#8217;s an amazing artist, and he has some amazing artists as friends.<\/p>\n<p>I have about eight of his works on my walls.<\/p>\n<p>The picture here is Emilia, his spunky 16-year-old daughter. She has dreadlocks. And as a result, she&#8217;s leaving her current high school in favour of one with more liberal hairdo policies.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the party were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/73127988\/\">Roger Ballen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/72495656\/\">Tinus Horn<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56788416@N00\/72495382\/\">Alistair Findlay<\/a>. All of them are major artists in their fields.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel, Tinus and Alistair were the core members of a portrait circle which disbanded some time back. They&#8217;re reforming, and I&#8217;ll once more be part of it. Yay!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005-12-11 Emilia Murcott Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. S and I trundled off on Sunday to Lionel Murcott&#8216;s birthday party. He&#8217;s an amazing artist, and he has some amazing artists as friends. I have about eight of his works on my &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2005-12-11-lionel-murcotts-birthday-party-blairgowrie\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2005-12-11 Lionel Murcott&#8217;s birthday party, Blairgowrie<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-4k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}