{"id":3919,"date":"2012-08-15T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3919"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:50:59","slug":"rufus-porter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/rufus-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rufus Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rufus Porter, Itinerant Muralist and<br \/>\nInventor, Undertakes a Commission<br \/>\nin Bradford Center, N.H.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1824,<br \/>\nhaving left a volcano to erupt<br \/>\nin the middle of a hunting scene<br \/>\nin East Jaffrey,<br \/>\nyou arrive. The citizens<\/p>\n<p>are scarcely<br \/>\nmore surprised than your hunter, continuing<br \/>\non with his dog<br \/>\nas smoke curls<br \/>\nabove his head.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody<br \/>\ncomes out of the doors<br \/>\nof the three houses. In a leaning<br \/>\nshed the blacksmith<br \/>\nkeeps up a slow<\/p>\n<p>ringing sound<br \/>\nthat dies in the fields.<br \/>\nIn short, the place<br \/>\nis perfect. Fabulously<br \/>\nstatic<\/p>\n<p>like farm towns<br \/>\nyou walked through in New York,<br \/>\nimagining your Great<br \/>\nDirigible Airship lifting<br \/>\noff Saint Helena<\/p>\n<p>with Napoleon.<br \/>\nHere in Bradford Center<br \/>\nyou begin to think<br \/>\nabout setting free<br \/>\nthe walls:<\/p>\n<p>Boats cross your mind,<br \/>\nthere is a red house<br \/>\nwith a yellow door. Whole rooms open<br \/>\ninto trees. You turn<br \/>\nto your assistant<\/p>\n<p>with eyes that are not mad<br \/>\nexactly. \u201cIt\u2019s the best damn thing since<br \/>\nEast Jaffrey,\u201d you tell him.<br \/>\nThen you talk about<br \/>\npaint.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3919\" data-postid=\"3919\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3919 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rufus Porter, Itinerant Muralist and Inventor, Undertakes a Commission in Bradford Center, N.H. In 1824, having left a volcano to erupt in the middle of a hunting scene in East Jaffrey, you arrive. The citizens are scarcely more surprised than your hunter, continuing on with his dog as smoke curls above his head. Nobody comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3919\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}