{"id":31769,"date":"2025-11-27T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31769"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:58:23","slug":"distracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31769","title":{"rendered":"distracted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b4ac8856090f68db29f6e66ef1e5160f\" style=\"color:#814407\">Court Painter tried as best he could to follow the recent news of Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signing a major new energy co-operation agreement on Thursday, outlining the conditions that need to be met for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific to proceed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ele.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31779\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f4a800637cbafd6546c03068fa0a6d6f\">However, Court Painter was distracted by a major commission for The Sourpuss Sceptic Society, which includes two paintings featuring a beautiful white elephant. The society is expected to eventually gift these works individually to the Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada for a substantial tax write-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-White-elephant-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-White-elephant-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-White-elephant-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-White-elephant-1-768x547.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=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-W-Elephant-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-W-Elephant-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-W-Elephant-2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Court-Painter-W-Elephant-2-768x592.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 has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a29ddec926ec9291f2cff5fc731db24a\" style=\"color:#716308\"><strong>The Gilded Burden<\/strong><br>So let this serve as warning, all beware<br>The venture that doth charm with surface show:<br>For often hidden costs and ceaseless care<br>Are all the fruit that such fine seeds will grow.<br>Then shun this prize whose lustre is but gloss,<br>And count thy greatest gain to bear no loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e7bfce78981e398f35415e78f0de3aa3\" style=\"color:#756607\">  Author: Dee P. S. Eek (DeepSeek)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meeeting-white-elephant-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meeeting-white-elephant-painting.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meeeting-white-elephant-painting-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meeeting-white-elephant-painting-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Governments of Alberta &amp; Canada decide to share the white elephant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter tried as best he could to follow the recent news of Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signing a major new energy co-operation agreement on Thursday, outlining the conditions that need to be met for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific to proceed.&nbsp; However, Court Painter was distracted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=31769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;distracted&#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-31769","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\/31769","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=31769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31783,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769\/revisions\/31783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}