{"id":2097,"date":"2003-09-01T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:59:01","slug":"tom-thomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Tom Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Went to Toronto this weekend. A quickie trip.<br \/>\nBut managed to catch the Lion King. I found it to be spectacular as far as the set and costumes were concerned. The songs were uneven. But all in all a pleasant experience.<br \/>\nI also managed to visit the National Gallery where they had an exhibit of Tom Thompson\u2019s work. He is a Canadian painter who loved nature and spent a lot of time in Algonquin Park, fishing and painting. He died an early and suspicious death in Canoe Lake. Through the years my kids have done a lot of canoeing on those lakes and rivers that Thompson painted so this exhibit was of special interest to me\u2026Here are two of my favorites: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2098\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31.png 434w, https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-32.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2099\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-32.png 446w, https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-32-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Toronto this weekend. A quickie trip. But managed to catch the Lion King. I found it to be spectacular as far as the set and costumes were concerned. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}