{"id":5048,"date":"2013-12-22T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2013-12-22T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:46:45","slug":"end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/end-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s getting on towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/stainedglassshadow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice shadow of some stained glass.  I like to think that our universe is like the stained glass, the cosmic One is the light, and bright shadows are what we see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/paradecar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw the Los Gatos Christmas parade a few weeks back.  I wasn\u2019t shooting all that well that day, but I like this mysterious news-photo-like shot of a baseball player in an old Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/paradebrass.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Always love the kids blatting their horns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/104_womanwithjellyfish.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em> \u201cWoman With Jellyfish,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, December, 2013, 24\u201d\u009d x 30\u201d\u009d.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/104_womanwithjellyfish1200.jpg\"> Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I redid my painting, \u201cWoman With Jellyfish\u201d\u009d this week.  It looked too plain, and now it\u2019s bright.  Christmassy.<\/p>\n<p>My painting show reception and a readingfrom <em>The Big Aha<\/em> be at Borderlands Books on Friday, January 17, from 5 to 7.  I\u2019m planning to hang most the paintings that appear as chapter heads in <em><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transrealbooks.com\/#thebigaha\">The Big Aha<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/oxford_peacefulgarden.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wish you a peaceful holiday season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s getting on towards the end of the year. Nice shadow of some stained glass. I like to think that our universe is like the stained glass, the cosmic One is the light, and bright shadows are what we see. We saw the Los Gatos Christmas parade a few weeks back. I wasn\u2019t shooting all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}