{"id":7682,"date":"2012-07-02T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2012-07-05T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:39:44","slug":"canadian-wheat-boards-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/02\/canadian-wheat-boards-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Wheat Boards: #1 &#038; #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7683\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7683 \" title=\"Canadian Wheat Board #1\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0329.jpg 289w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0329-72x160.jpg 72w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0329-144x320.jpg 144w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0329-135x300.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Wheat Board #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7684\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7684 \" title=\"Canadian Wheat Board #2\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg 297w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0328-74x160.jpg 74w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0328-148x320.jpg 148w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_0328-139x300.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Wheat Board #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Organic Canadian wheat on red cedar, beeswax encaustic; 72 \u00c3\u2014 182 mm<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the Synthetic History of Canada, there was no symbol more evocative of hearth and home than the wheat board. Reconstructed here by the artist in the traditional materials of cedar [<em>strength<\/em>], wheat [<em>abundance<\/em>] and beeswax [<em>cohesion<\/em>], the wheat board is a forgotten part of Canadian lore. Its rediscovery as a domestic art form brings new hope of a progressive national identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Organic Canadian wheat on red cedar, beeswax encaustic; 72 \u00c3\u2014 182 mm. In the Synthetic History of Canada, there was no symbol more evocative of hearth and home than the wheat board. Reconstructed here by the artist in the traditional materials of cedar [strength], wheat [abundance] and beeswax [cohesion], the wheat board is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[705,1200,2531,411,2530],"class_list":["post-7682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-art","tag-canada","tag-encaustic","tag-history","tag-wheat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1ZU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}