{"id":6981,"date":"2023-03-26T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2023-03-26T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:34:14","slug":"march-madness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another gorgeous sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Razorbacks made it into the Sweet Sixteen of March Madness NCAA basketball tournament, and John figured out a way for us to watch it on television – alas, they didn\u2019t win but we enjoyed watching the first half! I made a quick video call to my old friend Gordo during a timeout. He and I won the Dillard\u2019s pool many years ago, and the tournament always makes me think of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday after work, we visited with Mara\u2019s dad Mark Sloan and his wife Michelle Van Parys, both fascinating artists. Mark spoke highly of his visit to Hendrix a couple of years ago when an exhibit he curated, \u201cSouthbound,\u201d was hung at our Windgate Museum. Small world note, Mara\u2019s husband Ben has a great-uncle who was president at Hendrix when I attended \u2014 what are the odds of that?! I thoroughly enjoyed getting to chat with both of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday was a local holiday. Lea came for early morning coffee, then I met Jenae for lunch up the street. We chatted for a couple of hours, then I went to the Museum of Popular Art across the street from her apartment. It\u2019s a tiny museum but they had a fascinating exhibit of ponchos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poncho of babies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I went by the flea market to see Tony and give him a bagful of bubble wrap (he was thrilled) – he gave me a decorated tie in return. I found this gem that I want to bring home (but didn\u2019t):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finished Joan Didion\u2019s \u201cSlouching toward Bethlehem\u201d and started \u201cDemon Copperhead.\u201d John and I watched \u201cLa La Land,\u201d a film we had avoided for some reason but enjoyed \u2014 although it was not the \u201cfeel-good\u201d movie we thought it was going to be. But still fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few more ponchos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Razorbacks made it into the Sweet Sixteen of March Madness NCAA basketball tournament, and John figured out a way for us to watch it on television – alas, they didn\u2019t win but we enjoyed watching the first half! I made a quick video call to my old friend Gordo during a timeout. He and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6991,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}