{"id":2471,"date":"2007-09-23T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2007-09-23T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T21:19:16","slug":"askew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/23\/askew\/","title":{"rendered":"Askew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we spent with Richard and Jacquie on the Vineyard. We left sunny Acton and arrived in Falmouth at the ferry in otherworldly thick fog. The boat carefully inched its way out of the harbor, sped across the water, and then slowed to a crawl as the captain dodged pleasure craft and fishing boats near Edgartown. Saturday was overcast &#8211; we speculated we inhabited the only cloudy patch of land in all of New England &#8211; but that was fine because it forced Diane to abandon her water-walking, and instead we toured the <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/Chappy%20Redux\/album\/\" title=\"Chappy\" target=\"_blank\">art district<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I eavesdropped as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonshaw.com\/\" title=\"Alison Shaw\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Shaw<\/a>, an artist whose love of color may exceed my own, talked with a visitor to her gallery about horizons. Adam long ago noted my inattention to that simple rule of thumb, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve since then noticed many photographers, and painters for that matter, with cocked horizons. I pointed to one of Alison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonshaw.com\/gco_kidsbeach_0307.shtml\" title=\"Sand Bucket\" target=\"_blank\">photos<\/a> and asked her under what circumstances she decides not to level hers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you do it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you have to mean it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we spent with Richard and Jacquie on the Vineyard. We left sunny Acton and arrived in Falmouth at the ferry in otherworldly thick fog. The boat carefully inched its way out of the harbor, sped across the water, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/23\/askew\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}