{"id":893,"date":"2010-03-23T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:59:56","slug":"king-tut-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/king-tut-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"king tut exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/king-tut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/king-tut.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"king-tut\" width=\"250\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-895\" \/><\/a>You may have heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ago.net\/kingtut\">King Tut exhibit at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario)<\/a> in Toronto.<br \/>\nWe went to see it last week, early on a Friday morning in the hopes of missing the massive crowds.  It didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>If you skip the horrific crowds (50 people shuffled in every 5 minutes), it was a great show.  Lots of good artifacts, nice displays that I can&#8217;t show you images of because NO CAMERAS ALLOWED, nor cell phones (turn them off!).  We had fun, learned a lot, and wanted to watch &#8220;The Mummy&#8221; and &#8220;The Mummy Returns&#8221; with Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz when we got back home \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Once we got out of that madhouse we were dumped right into a special King Tut Giftshop.  All manner of Made-In-China &#8220;stuff&#8221; was waiting for us.  Hmmm.. time to go and visit the art.<\/p>\n<p>We toured around from room to room, looking for the mysterious and evasive painting that we thought we saw at the Museum of Civilization in Hull Quebec a few years back: Moonlight in the Pines by Tom Thomson.  Only we cannot find it&#8230; a mistake in the title perhaps or maybe even the painter.  Oh well&#8230; will have to revisit the museum again some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of the King Tut exhibit at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) in Toronto. We went to see it last week, early on a Friday morning in the hopes of missing the massive crowds. It didn&#8217;t work. If you skip the horrific crowds (50 people shuffled in every 5 minutes), it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}