{"id":755,"date":"2016-08-04T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=755"},"modified":"2016-08-04T22:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:43:41","slug":"breathless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Breathless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shirtless Court Painter leaves international media breathless<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media from Time to BBC exult after the Great Dominion’s Court Painter was photographed shirtless after emerging from a cave next to his Calgary studio.<\/p>\n

\"Court<\/p>\n

Come to Canada!<\/p>\n

See the beaver, the bears \u2026 and the bare-chested Court Painter!<\/p>\n

Or as News.Mic put it, \u201cBehold, the Shirtless Court Painter \u2014 one of the Great Dominion’s most prized national treasures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time magazine and the BBC have now devoted space to how Court Painter was photographed shirtless after emerging from a cave next to his studio in the Inglewood district of Calgary..<\/p>\n

The respected media outlets document the reactions of Chris Cran celebrity artist and main competetor to Court Painter, who recently stumbled upon the scene while strolling in the alley and smelling the wild roses that line it’s perimeter.<\/p>\n

\"CC<\/p>\n

Mr. Cran encountered Court Painter with his pet rat in a cloud of smoke . The rat was apparently shirted.<\/p>\n

The BBC notes how the chance encounter at the cave drove Chris Cran to reflect on life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you step out of your studio, you never know what adventures await,\u201d Cran wrote on the door of Court Painter’s studio.<\/p>\n

Time also records The Star\u2019s story, noting that Cran had to make a quick decision when he saw Court Painter climbing out of the hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a 20-foot-wide round hole and Court Painter emerged with his pet rat in tow and said, \u2018This is the moment of truth; do I stop here or do I carry on?\u2019\u201d Cran told The Star.<\/p>\n

\"CC1\"<\/p>\n

(image sourced from recent rave at CC’s studio)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis anecdote contains hope for us all,\u201d exults digital magazine Slate. \u201cThe next time you see a cave, you should probably check to see if there is a hunky international political portraitist inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Court Painter has been spotted topless.<\/p>\n

\"Court<\/p>\n

Court Painter, of course, takes shirtlessness to a much higher level, appearing waist-up-naked a dozen times in a 2016 calendar of himself.<\/p>\n

In the calendar, he flashes his pecs while painting, flexing, horseback riding, smoking and clutching his pet rat.(reproductions unavailable because of copyright)<\/p>\n

His most recent was being shirtless 0n a steed at the 2016 Calgary Stampede parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shirtless Court Painter leaves international media breathless Media from Time to BBC exult after the Great Dominion’s Court Painter was photographed shirtless after emerging from a cave next to his Calgary studio. Come to Canada! See the beaver, the bears \u2026 and the bare-chested Court Painter! Or as News.Mic put it, \u201cBehold, the Shirtless Court … Continue reading “Breathless”<\/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-755","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\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}