{"id":1659,"date":"2017-07-24T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1659-ayvee.html"},"modified":"2017-07-25T00:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:56:26","slug":"ayvee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1659-ayvee.html","title":{"rendered":"Ayvee"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2288 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1491-_MG_9429.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn AVCon&#8217;s opening night the performers danced us the story of &#8216;Ayvee and Switch&#8217;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this scene Ayvee, performed by Alice Willamsen, spins a gift of silk cloth for her rescuer Switch.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAyvee, in the form of a beautiful magical crane had been caught in a trap set by the people of Switch&#8217;s village.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDespite the famine and hardship the village had endured Switch was so filled with compassion he chose to release the crane rather than bring it back to his village.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn her gratitude Ayvee spins fine silk cloth from her feathers which the villagers then sell to buy the food they need.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt was a delightful story and wonderful prelude to AVCon 2017.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Ayvee&#8217;, 1\/500s f\/2.8 ISO2000 200mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On AVCon&#8217;s opening night the performers danced us the story of &#8216;Ayvee and Switch&#8217;. In this scene Ayvee, performed by Alice Willamsen, spins a gift of silk cloth for her rescuer Switch. Ayvee, in the form of a beautiful magical crane had been caught in a trap set by the people of Switch&#8217;s village. Despite &#8230; <a title=\"Ayvee\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1659-ayvee.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ayvee\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}