{"id":5717,"date":"2018-01-25T04:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:08:15","slug":"knitting-things-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5717","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Things Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Knitting-self-portraits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Knitting-self-portraits.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Knitting-self-portraits-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Court-Painter-Knitting-self-portraits-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><em>Court Painter in studio with recent &#8220;Self Portraits while Smoking &amp; Knitting&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to alpha male Court Painter there are other alpha males like art college students, horse doctors, goth musicians, stockbrokers, Hollywood stars, gamblers,inner-city youth, outer city seniors,snowboarders \u2014 all who are taking up the 1,800-year-old craft not out of necessity but because they find it meditative, restorative, creative, or an avenue to connect with others in a world gone to shit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5713\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-kniting-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-kniting-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-kniting.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5721\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-knitting-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-knitting-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/court-painter-knitting-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Court Painter&#8217;s favourite poem that mentions knitting!<\/p>\n<h1>An Appointment<\/h1>\n<div>by <span id=\"author\">William Butler Yeats<\/span><\/div>\n<pre id=\"poem\"> Being out of heart with government\nI took a broken root to fling\nWhere the proud, wayward squirrel went,\nTaking delight that he could spring;\nAnd he, with that low whinnying sound\nThat is like laughter, sprang again\nAnd so to the other tree at a bound.\nNor the tame will, nor timid brain,\nNor heavy <strong>knitting<\/strong> of the brow\nBred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb\nAnd threw him up to laugh on the bough;\nNo govermnent appointed him.<\/pre>\n<pre id=\"poem\">\u00a0<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Painter in studio with recent &#8220;Self Portraits while Smoking &amp; Knitting&#8221; In addition to alpha male Court Painter there are other alpha males like art college students, horse doctors, goth musicians, stockbrokers, Hollywood stars, gamblers,inner-city youth, outer city seniors,snowboarders \u2014 all who are taking up the 1,800-year-old craft not out of necessity but because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=5717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knitting Things Together&#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-5717","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\/5717","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=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31992,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/31992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}