{"id":2514,"date":"2009-01-25T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2011-02-02T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T15:12:18","slug":"year-of-the-ox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/01\/25\/year-of-the-ox\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 26 2009 starts the year of the Ox <\/p>\n<p>Lao Tse on an ox <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/laozi-on-an-ox.jpg\" alt=\"laozi-on-an-ox\" title=\"laozi-on-an-ox\" width=\"244\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/laozi-on-an-ox.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/laozi-on-an-ox-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/writing\/taoism-and-the-arts-of-china.htm  \">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divinecaroline.com\/article\/32649\/59622-obama-solid-leo-ox\">Obama is a solid Leo\/Ox<\/a> as was Napoleon Bonaparte. (pretty scary thought)  Ox leaders include M. Thatcher, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Maybe the Chinese should choose a new animal.<br \/>\nJ.S.Bach, Vincent Van Gogh and Charlie Chaplin were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannewhite.com\/new-astrology\/AriesOx.html\">Aries Ox<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/lifestyle\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/25\/lifefocus\/3067511&#038;sec=lifefocus\">more famous Ox people here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Johanne Sebastian Bach was a majestic Ox<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qB76jxBq_gQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qB76jxBq_gQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Tramp was a melancholy Ox<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9blB50d4M00&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9blB50d4M00&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Ox directed by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-sven-nykvist\/\"> Sven Nykvist <\/a> 1991<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Az12C6GrfIE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Az12C6GrfIE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here is a terribly depressing movie to go with the current troubled times. <\/p>\n<p>Google Ox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lunarny09ud.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lunarny09ud.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"lunarny09ud\" width=\"338\" height=\"111\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally visit two Art and culture Ox blogs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/unmuzzledox.blogspot.com\/  \">Unmuzzled Ox<\/a> (By an editor of magazine Unmuzzled Ox) and <a href=\"http:\/\/lavachequilit.typepad.com\/\">La Vache qui lit<\/a> (Mme Levy an expat living in France) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 26 2009 starts the year of the Ox Lao Tse on an ox (via) Obama is a solid Leo\/Ox as was Napoleon Bonaparte. (pretty scary thought) Ox leaders include M. Thatcher, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Maybe the Chinese should choose a new animal. J.S.Bach, Vincent Van Gogh and Charlie Chaplin were Aries Ox. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/01\/25\/year-of-the-ox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Year of the Ox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}