{"id":49407,"date":"2023-06-18T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49407"},"modified":"2023-06-18T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T03:27:00","slug":"year-50-day-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/06\/18\/year-50-day-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1225,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thecottagebothell.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302093057\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thecottagebothell.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:32:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:32:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"My wife and I, smiling for a selfie in front of a painting of Wilbert Andell Anderson, depicted as a creepy-looking gaunt white man with a brown goatee wearing a blue t-shirt and backwards baseball cap and holding a fishing rod; his eyes are hooded and he has a slight smirk, as if he\u2019s sizing you up and deciding he could easily dispose of you where you wouldn\u2019t be found anytime soon.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9689-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 47: Tomorrow is our anniversary, so we decided to run off to the Bothell McMenamin\u2019s for the night. We got to listen to some nice music from the courtyard, had a great meal at a local restaurant (not one of the ones here; none of their menus looked right to us for tonight, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thecottagebothell.com\/\">The Cottage<\/a> was <em>excellent<\/em>), and have some good chocolates and champagne in the room. The room on the whole is cute\u2026except for the painting of this location\u2019s namesake, Wilbert Andell Anderson, who looks like a creepy backwoods redneck badly cosplaying his just-discovered Viking ancestry, and who is staring directly at the bed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonus photo: the full painting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-1024x848.jpeg\" alt=\"The full painting of Wilbert Andell Anderson, depicted as a creepy-looking gaunt white man with a brown goatee wearing a blue t-shirt and backwards baseball cap and holding a fishing rod; his eyes are hooded and he has a slight smirk, as if he\u2019s sizing you up and deciding he could easily dispose of you where you wouldn\u2019t be found anytime soon. He is standing in front of a canoe with a Viking-style dragon prow; an axe with Nordic etchings is attached to the boat, and there is a shield in the bottom of the boat next to the fish that have been caught. Wilber is holding a horn of mead, and has several belts with more Nordic designs wrapped around him. He looks like a backwoods redneck badly cosplaying his just-discovered Viking ancestry.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"848\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-1024x848.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-300x248.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-768x636.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-1536x1272.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_9686-2048x1696.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbert Andell Anderson looks like a creepy backwoods redneck badly cosplaying his just-discovered Viking ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[5720,5686],"class_list":["post-49407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-mcmenamins","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}