{"id":1805,"date":"2015-03-24T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2015-03-26T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:46:19","slug":"polar-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Polar Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know that my local contemporaries will be quick to hate on my having shifted the Earth&#8217;s axis to accommodate the preferred light source in my backdrop.\u00a0 I could have just claimed it as the glowing din of some frat house rave. But hey, what&#8217;s a few degrees among friends? I&#8217;m writing it off to just a wee bit of artistic license. Said license similarly including but not limited to &#8211; a sudden drop in weight and all around physical buffing of the musicianal subjects, especially yours truly, my indiscriminate use of ancillary light sources, and we&#8217;ll lob on a liberal dose of re-defining our planet&#8217;s curvature, just for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is a little nod to the Saturday mornings of my childhood with a smather of Austin lore.\u00a0 And yes, we kept the Mystery Machine parked just out of frame to avoid any legal entanglements. I&#8217;ll simply say thanks to Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera for the inspiration and the opportunity to immortalize some fine local entertainers in cartoon form. Stay tuned for further adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you want to see our mugs in human form, here&#8217;s a pic I used for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2871.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2871-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"Image of members of Able Company Band\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2871-1024x341.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2871-300x100.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2871.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know that my local contemporaries will be quick to hate on my having shifted the Earth&#8217;s axis to accommodate the preferred light source in my backdrop.\u00a0 I could have just claimed it as the glowing din of some frat house rave. But hey, what&#8217;s a few degrees among friends? I&#8217;m writing it off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ACTrioW_ATXSkyline_02.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uwdY-t7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}