{"id":31646,"date":"2025-11-22T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31646"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:32:16","slug":"simpler-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31646","title":{"rendered":"simpler 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=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-B-W-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-B-W-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-B-W-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-B-W-1-768x548.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-white-color has-dark-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-b92fcec479e33344c825452ec494b316\"><strong><br>Hark, attend! For I shall speak of that stark duality known to mortal eyes as &#8220;black and white.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ed976cf085bc990e75697b875718a9f6\"><strong>In its most artless form, it is but the raven&#8217;s plume set against the driven snow, the inky scroll upon a page of purest parchment. 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For I shall speak of that stark duality known to mortal eyes as &#8220;black and white.&#8221; In its most artless form, it is but the raven&#8217;s plume set against the driven snow, the inky scroll upon a page of purest parchment. Yet, this pairing doth oft escape the Court Painter&#8217;s pot to clothe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;simpler 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-31646","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\/31646","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=31646"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31669,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions\/31669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}