{"id":973,"date":"2012-10-05T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/?p=973"},"modified":"2012-10-05T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:40:20","slug":"hockneys-charitable-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Hockney&#8217;s charitable works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gurning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-974\" title=\"gurning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gurning-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Approached by Bridlington council officials to appear as a town tour guide during a summer charity weekend, David Hockney generously consented and, to the great amusement of the crowd, threw in a hitherto unknown talent for gurning. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was easily the great attraction of the weekend, like the Pied Piper,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said council leader Bill Cumming. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had a marvellous time actually,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added the greatest landscape painter since Altdorfer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was even able to introduce local youngsters to the life-enhancing joys of smoking. They loved it when I took a drag and gurned at the same time. Aye, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to be said for community engagement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Jackdaw October 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approached by Bridlington council officials to appear as a town tour guide during a summer charity weekend, David Hockney generously consented and, to the great amusement of the crowd, threw in a hitherto unknown talent for gurning. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was easily the great attraction of the weekend, like the Pied Piper,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said council leader Bill Cumming. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","tag-hockney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}