{"id":30200,"date":"2025-07-18T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30200"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:24:11","slug":"moonmist-and-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30200","title":{"rendered":"Moonmist and Bingo&#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=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Moonmist-Bingo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Moonmist-Bingo.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Moonmist-Bingo-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Moonmist-Bingo-768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5ad407b7114720e94311c82f362caf84\" style=\"color:#a80d05\">Moonmist &amp; Bingo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Editors note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Court Painter was lined up to paint portraits of Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore, because news\u2014and rumours of news\u2014that the province was stepping in to <strong>grant \u201cstrong mayor\u201d powers<\/strong> to the current compliant mayor. The Premier is also <strong>threatening to overturn <\/strong>the democratically elected city council\u2019s decision to repurpose non-arterial Morris Street into a one-way road with a bike lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apparently, the Premier of Nova Scotia hasn\u2019t much else to do. Must be nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-dark-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-6fcb37133d5d880a2e0725f7c6957980\">Court Painter reconsidered and decided two local crustatians Bingo &amp; Moonmist were more worthy of his brush and more attractive in their appearance and behaviour than the aforementioned politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>read the Halifax Examiner article for the full scoop<\/em><\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Tim Houston doesn\u2019t care about bike lanes. Andy Fillmore doesn\u2019t care about bike lanes. Bike lanes are just a cheap political gimmick to dangle in front of an easily distracted populace that wants to believe the worst of elected representatives, and especially those in the big, bad city.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/author\/tim-bousquet\/\">TIM BOUSQUET<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-halifax-examiner wp-block-embed-halifax-examiner\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yRpgt3V32f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/morning-file\/dismantling-democracy-the-30-year-project-to-take-power-away-from-the-people\/\">Dismantling Democracy: the 30-year project to take power away from the people<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Dismantling Democracy: the 30-year project to take power away from the people&#8221; &#8212; Halifax Examiner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/morning-file\/dismantling-democracy-the-30-year-project-to-take-power-away-from-the-people\/embed\/#?secret=4eRc9aLTdd#?secret=yRpgt3V32f\" data-secret=\"yRpgt3V32f\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist-Bingo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist-Bingo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist-Bingo-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist-Bingo-768x419.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-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0026457d47c959a4b8f692a7cdb37245\" style=\"color:#aa0e06\">Court Painter seen proudly putting on finishing touches to Moonmist &amp; Bingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-06e6db99b58d8fcd0fc3585982b1ca46\" style=\"color:#0272a2\">Lobsters Bingo and Moonmist are an extremely rare duo, with colour combinations that are estimated to occur only in <strong>one in 50 million<\/strong> and <strong>one in 100 million, respectively<\/strong>. They were likely headed towards someone&#8217;s supper plate or lobster roll, until staff at a large Bedford, N.S., fish market identified the unique creatures and donated them to the Back to the Sea Centre in Dartmouth, N.S. (July 18, 2025)The pair will spend much of the summer in the centre, giving visitors as much time as possible to see Bingo and Moonmist before they are returned to the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist.jpg 683w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Moonmist-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Bingo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Bingo.jpg 683w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Court-Painter-Bingo-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-81e884d6f3507a2d4449e21520893692\" style=\"color:#e3180d\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonmist &amp; Bingo Editors note: Court Painter was lined up to paint portraits of Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore, because news\u2014and rumours of news\u2014that the province was stepping in to grant \u201cstrong mayor\u201d powers to the current compliant mayor. The Premier is also threatening to overturn the democratically elected city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moonmist and Bingo&#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-30200","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\/30200","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=30200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30217,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30200\/revisions\/30217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}