{"id":15148,"date":"2016-01-09T15:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=15148"},"modified":"2016-01-10T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T15:17:57","slug":"timely-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/timely-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Timely note"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every January I visit the calendar shop at the regional shopping mall and pick up a few at half-price to provide a variety of art on my walls for the coming year. This year, I struck out. Everything of any interest was gone \u2014 no medieval or renaissance art, no pre-Raphaelites, no Edward Gorey, not even Ansel Adams. There were plenty of puppies, of course, but I prefer dogs as friends, not as artistic subjects. Fortunately, I earlier ordered this year’s Girls und Panzer<\/em> calendar, so I do have a way to keep track of passing time.<\/p>\n

\"January<\/a><\/p>\n

Although there are only six pages (seven if you count the cover), they are poster-sized, 24″ tall (including the binding strip at the top) and 16.5″ wide. (Right-click and open the links in new windows to see the images at high resolution.)<\/p>\n

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While on the subject of calendars: southeast Kansas is a weird place. Time does strange things there. Here are the April and May pages from the calendar published by the Parsons Sun<\/em>. What happens between April 30, a Saturday, and May 1, a Friday? There’s a similar gap between the last day of May and the first day of June.<\/p>\n

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Every January I visit the calendar shop at the regional shopping mall and pick up a few at half-price to provide a variety of art on my walls for the coming year. This year, I struck out. Everything of any interest was gone \u2014 no medieval or renaissance art, no pre-Raphaelites, no Edward Gorey, not … Continue reading “Timely note”<\/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":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3Wk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15199,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions\/15199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}