{"id":4147,"date":"2011-01-01T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T07:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2011-01-01T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T07:44:32","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The irony doesn&#8217;t escape me. A couple of days ago I posted photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/12\/29\/bad-art\/\">bad art<\/a>, and today I&#8217;m going all soft in the knees over a spectacular <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/YbqVubX83Yn1YHqNcbOpOQ?feat=directlink\">sunset<\/a> &#8211; which I captured on my iPod Touch and then massaged via <a href=\"http:\/\/campl.us\/\">Camera+<\/a> (an excellent iPhone\/ iPod Touch app), bringing out what some might call the sunset theme&#8217;s most saccharine and kitschy qualities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/YbqVubX83Yn1YHqNcbOpOQ?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/TSAhOok0wpI\/AAAAAAAABmw\/CFv2blaBoro\/s640\/IMG_0031.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The local Twitter-verse (and Vancouver&#8217;s) was abuzz with tweets about the fabulous sky this afternoon &#8211; it was this amazing gift we were getting. Bad art might be bad art, but a sunset is only kitschy if you weren&#8217;t there to see it yourself. Tonight, we West Coasters have black velvet and sequins stapled to the insides of our eyeballs &#8211; it was that intense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I took this photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=King+George+Terrace,+British+Columbia,+Canada&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=31.784549,90.263672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=King+George+Terrace,+Oak+Bay,+Capital+Regional+District,+British+Columbia,+Canada&amp;ll=48.409434,-123.319216&amp;spn=0.006495,0.022037&amp;z=16\">King George Terrace<\/a> at the foot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crd.bc.ca\/parks\/gonzales\/index.htm\">Gonzales Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8230;Victoria, your seductive power remains acute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irony doesn&#8217;t escape me. A couple of days ago I posted photos of bad art, and today I&#8217;m going all soft in the knees over a spectacular sunset &#8211; which I captured on my iPod Touch and then massaged via Camera+ (an excellent iPhone\/ iPod Touch app), bringing out what some might call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242,1418],"tags":[6390],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","category-victoria","tag-sunset"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}