{"id":434,"date":"2007-03-12T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T21:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/day-off-hogarth-heron-and-happiness\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T21:13:20","slug":"day-off-hogarth-heron-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/day-off-hogarth-heron-and-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Day off (Hogarth, Heron and Happiness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day for many weeks that I woke up knowing the day was my own and no work would be involved.   I&#8217;d taken the day as annual leave with the intention of going up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/britain\/exhibitions\/hogarth\/\" target=\"_new\">Hogarth exhibition at the Tate.<\/a> And that&#8217;s what we did! Michele and I got the 436 bus up to Vauxhall and then walked across the bridge, being sure to take a couple of pics of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/419156149\/\" target=\"_new\">MI6 building.<\/a> As we crossed the bridge a bunch of particularly graceful and skillful seagulls performed for us. Even a Heron joined in the fun and allowed us half an hour of ogling it through the little monocular I always carry (present from my mother-in-law). Such a beautiful bird.<\/p>\n<p>The whole Tate experience was wonderful! We had lunch in their expensive but delicious cafe, and then spent two hours looking at the huge collection of Hogarth pictures. <\/p>\n<p>Several hours, a pub visit and a nice pizza later, my brain is buzzing with images and ideas from the exhibition. Thankfully I spent 12 quid on a book that covers a lot of the material we observed and so I don&#8217;t have to let the memories fade.<\/p>\n<p>If you can, go and see it! It&#8217;s only a tenner and it will keep your dendrites busy for long a while. <\/p>\n<p>Also, have a look and then envy the skill involved in creating something wonderful like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcvu.gla.ac.uk\/research\/bhellad\/molecular_machines\/animation.html\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/www.molecularmachines.org.uk\/<\/a> Nuff respec an ting to Dr Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day for many weeks that I woke up knowing the day was my own and no work would be involved. I&#8217;d taken the day as annual leave with the intention of going up to the Hogarth exhibition at the Tate. And that&#8217;s what we did! Michele and I got the 436 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}