{"id":29491,"date":"2025-04-23T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29491"},"modified":"2025-04-27T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:51:51","slug":"orbuculum-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29491","title":{"rendered":"election orbuculum time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-orbuculum-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-orbuculum-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-orbuculum-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-orbuculum-1-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-blue-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-545db520329ed89958dfdbb2951351a8\">Court Painter in orbuculum studio as election day approaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CP-AHM-crystal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CP-AHM-crystal.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CP-AHM-crystal-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CP-AHM-crystal-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-blue-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5367a64fb666be6e4f2c7436f20aaf76\">POLL DOUBTERS: Court Painter seen with his Press Attache AHM in the orbuculum studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ghost-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ghost-8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ghost-8-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ghost-8-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystal-ball-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystal-ball-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystal-ball-1-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystal-ball-1-768x412.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-blue-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7b2f437fea4aaf89deec032a85ba7f53\">Court Painter, ever the unyielding visionary in the milieu of political prognostications and punditry, stands proudly as a fervent doubter of polls and their rolling forecasts. His illustrious career as a painterly seer and oracle of the political realm finds its sustenance not in mundane data nor head counting, but in the time tested intuitions of the orbuclum\u2014that resplendent glowing sphere of shimmering foresight, known to the common tongue as the crystal ball. Within its argent depths he beholds political destinies yet to be written, penetrating through the mists and swirls of prophecy, defying the prolific pundits and puerile prognosticators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-blue-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-226e9fde137da3b8dcb53fc14c3c895a\">Court Painter&#8217;s record of prophecy is a well kept secret however his sale of crystal orbs is doing a brisk election time business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crys-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crys-red.jpg 945w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crys-red-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crys-red-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crysal-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crysal-b.jpg 945w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crysal-b-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crysal-b-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalorange.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalorange.jpg 945w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalorange-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalorange-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter in orbuculum studio as election day approaches POLL DOUBTERS: Court Painter seen with his Press Attache AHM in the orbuculum studio. Court Painter, ever the unyielding visionary in the milieu of political prognostications and punditry, stands proudly as a fervent doubter of polls and their rolling forecasts. His illustrious career as a painterly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;election orbuculum time&#8230;&#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-29491","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\/29491","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=29491"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29563,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions\/29563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}