{"id":7287,"date":"2010-07-29T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:41:31","slug":"spotlight-turned-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight Turned Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n<p>Thank god, I&#8217;m done with the spotlight.\u00a0 Please never again.\u00a0 Interrupting people on their journey through the museum, a private journey done under their guidance, is intrusive, invasive.<\/p>\n<p>I had two folks on the Anishinabe to Zapotec Tour, Carl and Carol.\u00a0 When I said, I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve got jokes on that over the years, Carl said, nope. We haven&#8217;t been together that long.\u00a0 We wandered in the galleries looking at the kachina, the house screen, the Bella Coola frontlet, the transformation mask, the Nayarit house and the Valdivian owl.\u00a0 I told them the story of turtle, loon, beaver and muskrat, the pointed out the turtle sign on the Lakota fancy dress.\u00a0 It was a good tour, engaged and interested.<\/p>\n<p>Spoke with Margaret afterward.\u00a0 She got me up to date on Sierra Club work and sent me a quick note with a timeline for the legcom process.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also to call CURA and Macalester seeking interns.<\/p>\n<p>Finally got over to Big Brain comics and picked three issues of the Good Minnesotan, a comic done by an MIA guard and her husband. The guy behind the counter shaved his beard and looks like a slightly pudgy groucho marx.\u00a0 A lot like a slightly pudgy groucho marx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon Thank god, I&#8217;m done with the spotlight.\u00a0 Please never again.\u00a0 Interrupting people on their journey through the museum, a private journey done under their guidance, is intrusive, invasive. I had two folks on the Anishinabe to Zapotec Tour, Carl and Carol.\u00a0 When I said, I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve got jokes on that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spotlight Turned Off<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,566,1979,100],"tags":[2656,2055,2659,2608,2658,4370,2607,2657],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-humanities","category-humor","category-politics","tag-bella-coola","tag-big-brain-comics","tag-groucho-marx","tag-lakota","tag-nayarit","tag-sierra-club","tag-tlingit","tag-validivian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41282,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/41282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}