{"id":1321,"date":"2010-01-02T20:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2010-01-02T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:04:27","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy and I had fun today!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4699\/755759404_sdjjf-S.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><br \/>\nWe took a field trip to the High Museum to see the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4717\/755760797_753gr-L.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  I love being downtown shooting pictures of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4690\/755758761_Lgj5Q-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4682\/755758240_eCqK9-L.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have two heroes:  Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci.  Both guys were artists, musicians and writers besides scientists and inventors.  <\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of being a Renaissance man.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Mr. Tim&#8217;s tip for the day.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a Bank of America ATM\/Visa card you can go for free to the exhibit as long as you have your card with you and it&#8217;s the first weekend of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Free is free, baby.<\/p>\n<p>There was a huge line for the place.  I walked to the very head of the line and talked to a supervisor.  I said I&#8217;d called ahead and had my Visa card and could I get a ticket now?  She said sure and printed them off right there!  We waited in line to go upstairs for about thirty minutes then went right on in.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great exhibit showing many of his sketches for the huge bronze horse he wanted to make.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4712\/755760432_U5bGF-S.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was fun to be that close to a real genius.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4703\/755759731_PQBSR-S.jpg\" alt=\"v\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Da-Vinci-at-the-High-Museum\/IMG4701\/755759566_Az7bn-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy and I had fun today! We took a field trip to the High Museum to see the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit. I love being downtown shooting pictures of the buildings. I have two heroes: Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci. Both guys were artists, musicians and writers besides scientists and inventors. I like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}