{"id":8772,"date":"2025-11-15T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:21:40","slug":"best-date-ever-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8772","title":{"rendered":"Best Date Ever Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norton-Sharon-1.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, we went to the Norton Museum to see the Rembrandt show. One Vermeer, one Franz Hals and several Rembrandts, including one self-portrait by a young Rembrandt. Show was more about the Golden Age of Dutch Art than just Rembrandt. Had a great time, especially when we remembered a Hals show at the Getty Modern and the Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum (including Night Watch, of course). Lots of memories.<\/p>\n<p>One the way out, we stopped at several exhibits, including this one in the Photography gallery on tone, light, and form. Sharon posed in front of one piece, after questioning, &#8220;&#8230;, why is this art?&#8221; It&#8217;s a long story, not about what I said in response, but the general question, what is art and how it this art. We don&#8217;t have the same amount of Museum Speak in our vocabularies, but we know enough to have a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>How great is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we went to the Norton Museum to see the Rembrandt show. One Vermeer, one Franz Hals and several Rembrandts, including one self-portrait by a young Rembrandt. Show was more about the Golden Age of Dutch Art than just Rembrandt. Had a great time, especially when we remembered a Hals show at the Getty Modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Date Ever Still&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,177,15,17,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fashion","category-personal","category-photography","category-sharon-duckman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8775,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}