{"id":816,"date":"2014-04-13T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2014-05-01T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:49:38","slug":"my-dad-did-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"MY DAD DID THAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the Ian Potter in Fed Square a few weeks ago. In one of the upstairs galleries was this painting of schoolboys waiting in line. It&#8217;s a picture I know well, because it used to hang on our wall. And that&#8217;s because my Dad &#8211; or more properly in this context, the artist Douglas Green &#8211;\u00a0 painted it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DOUgpic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-843\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DOUgpic.jpg\" alt=\"DOUgpic\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a>I couldn&#8217;t stop smiling. Grinning, actually, like the Cheshire Cat. I felt like telling the other gallery goers &#8220;My Dad did that!&#8221;<br \/>\nBut I didn&#8217;t. I did a sedate turn of the room looking at all the other pictures and then circled back again. I smiled some more, and then left, still smiling. Nice work, Dad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-842\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the Ian Potter in Fed Square a few weeks ago. In one of the upstairs galleries was this painting of schoolboys waiting in line. It&#8217;s a picture I know well, because it used to hang on our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}