{"id":573890730,"date":"2018-04-12T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890730"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:19:44","slug":"random-thursday-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/04\/12\/random-thursday-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent time in the television studio today. Here is a photo of a decorative lightbulb which descends from the conduits above to prove it!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr18\/apr26.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I obviously picked the wrong profession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An installation at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto is more hands-on than your typical exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED&#8221; by the 85-year old artist, musician and activist, asks visitors to do several physical tasks, including pick up river stones \u2014some of which include handwritten inscriptions by Ono herself\u2014and place them in a pile.<\/p>\n<p>But one woman appears to have taken the &#8220;hands-on&#8221; suggestion a little too literally. Rather than place her rock in the pile, she allegedly stole it, Laura Snapes reports for The Guardian. The rock, valued at a cool $17,500, was inscribed by Ono with the words &#8220;Love Yourself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Things are worth what people are willing to pay. And what a person is theoretically willing to pay and willing to insure are different things. And we&#8217;re a nonsensical people when it comes to former almost-celebrities. But still &#8230; and this part is worth repeating &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Seventeen thousand dollars?<\/p>\n<p>And this evening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/04\/12\/durand-jones-indications-taking-indiana-soul-world\/510678002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I discovered Durand Jones &#038; The Indications<\/a>. Now you will too. They&#8217;re IU guys and they have a lot of soul:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpxCu5w6zDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheDishwashingSessions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheDishwashingSessions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Etta James &#8211; I Don&#39;t Want It<\/p>\n<p>Sam Cooke &#8211; I&#39;ll Come Running Back To You<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Neville &#8211; Tell It Like It Is <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PwbnqbSFqI\">pic.twitter.com\/PwbnqbSFqI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/984613046537609216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I forgot to take a picture &#8211; hurting too much &#8211; but it was finally a lovely spring day to run. It was 63\u00b0 degrees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICG3UvlCrl\">pic.twitter.com\/ICG3UvlCrl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/984200798841294848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent time in the television studio today. Here is a photo of a decorative lightbulb which descends from the conduits above to prove it! But I obviously picked the wrong profession: An installation at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto is more hands-on than your typical exhibition. &#8220;YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED&#8221; by the 85-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,39,10,57,15,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-music","category-photo","category-running","category-thursday","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890731,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890730\/revisions\/573890731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}