{"id":1554,"date":"2016-10-18T03:42:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2016-10-18T04:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:55:24","slug":"currying-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"Currying Ministerial Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1561 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-4.jpg\" alt=\"court-painter-minister-joly-4\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-4-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-4-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 150th anniversary of the Great Dominion will be a unique opportunity for Canadians to celebrate the \u00a0identity of Court Painter as the preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion&#8217;s political and celebrity class, while secondly highlighting Canada&#8217;s cultural diversity and the richness of its history and heritage. These portraits of <em>yours truly<\/em> offer us an incredible opportunity to promote Court Painter both within our communities and between communities, everywhere in the country. This project will no doubt help strengthen the ties that unite us and leave a lasting legacy for future generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014The Honourable M\u00e9lanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1558 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-1.jpg\" alt=\"court-painter-minister-joly-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-1-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-2.jpg\" alt=\"court-painter-minister-joly-2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-2-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-Minister-Joly-2-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-minister-Joly-3.jpg\" alt=\"court-painter-minister-joly-3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-minister-Joly-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-minister-Joly-3-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Court-Painter-minister-Joly-3-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;The 150th anniversary of the Great Dominion will be a unique opportunity for Canadians to celebrate the \u00a0identity of Court Painter as the preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion&#8217;s political and celebrity class, while secondly highlighting Canada&#8217;s cultural diversity and the richness of its history and heritage. These portraits of yours truly offer us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=1554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Currying Ministerial Favor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}