{"id":5027,"date":"2022-09-15T18:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2022-09-15T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:32:29","slug":"a-day-in-leon-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/a-day-in-leon-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in Leon, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday 2nd September&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/leon.es\/en\/what-to-see\/emblematic-buildings\/museum-of-contemporary-art-of-castile-and-leon-musac\/\" target=\"_blank\">MUSAC<\/a> in Leon. I\u2019ve just been ushered in to watch a rather slight \u2018performance\u2019 of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mutualart.com\/Exhibition\/Metanarratives--MUSAC-Collection\/5C3634441E0887FF\" target=\"_blank\">a smoke machine and some lights changing colour<\/a>. It made the phrase \u2018dreams gone up in smoke\u2019 come to mind. I was thinking about the two years of planning applications now finally rejected. But then I considered \u2018what <em>was<\/em> the dream?\u2019 Not that specific design of a house (that was rejected) for sure. More the experience that a place to live out in the country that contrasts with tight London can offer. That can take many forms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was an exhibition of ceramics in the gallery but I can&#8217;t find any information now about it so can&#8217;t write about the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nKjSbc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52342474807_3b56e8b666_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramics at Museum of Contemporary Art Leon Spain\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nKjShe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52342475157_41c16c2d5d_z.jpg\" alt=\"More ceramics at MUAC Leon Spain\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">You have to guess &#8211; is this part of the exhibition or part of the facilities?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2nKjSnz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52342475467_ddba73a75d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Leon with MUSAC\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MUSAC just behind the block of flats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my visit to the art gallery I walked around part of the town, perhaps not the most attractive part, and sat at a bar to have an orange juice and a bready snack. Then I sat on a bench in a shady park and was shat on by a bird &#8211; so moved on. Luckily I always carry tissues in case of urgent need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 2nd September&nbsp; In the MUSAC in Leon. I\u2019ve just been ushered in to watch a rather slight \u2018performance\u2019 of a smoke machine and some lights changing colour. It made the phrase \u2018dreams gone up in smoke\u2019 come to mind. I was thinking about the two years of planning applications now finally rejected. But then&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/a-day-in-leon-spain\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A day in Leon, Spain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[214,215,132],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel","tag-art","tag-cities","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}