{"id":1888,"date":"2010-11-07T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:50:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:50:54","slug":"edinburghs-own-banksy-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/11\/edinburghs-own-banksy-does-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh&#8217;s own Banksy does it again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffling along this morning in my usual half asleep state past the leaf man who was the talk of the steamie two weeks ago (this was the original post if you didn&#8217;t see it then\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/aX9fL0\">bit.ly\/aX9fL0<\/a>) . After I blogged it on 25th October I got a call from the Edinburgh Evening News who had seen my post and wanted to know where he was and as a result he featured as page 3 in the paper the next day. So, anyway there I was at 9am this morning when my bleary eye alighted on this! Yes\u00a0 as the leafs fall from the trees the leaf man\u2019s sap is rising as he introduces his toddler and tweenie.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-stare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1897\" title=\"Leaf stare\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-stare-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-stare-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-stare.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1898\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-tweenie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1898\" title=\"Leaf tweenie\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-tweenie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-tweenie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-tweenie.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staring at Antony Gormleys sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1899\" title=\"Leaf close up\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-close-up-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-close-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Leaf-close-up.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1900\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/baby-leaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1900\" title=\"baby leaf\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/baby-leaf-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/baby-leaf-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/baby-leaf.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby leaf keeping an eye on the older sibling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Who is the artist ? Well intriguingly alisonsdiary.com has received an e mail from someone who knows the artist \u2013 he is apparently from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aotearoa\">aotearoa<\/a> which is the Maori name for New Zealand. \u2013 the plot thickens\u2026..<br \/>\nAs the leaf tweenie looks out over one of Antony Gormley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/aboutus\/project\/1:167\/8496\">6 times sculpture <\/a>&#8211; a fellow artist &#8211;\u00a0 this area is becoming an installation worth travelling to see all on it\u2019s own. It certainly put a smile on my face this sunny Edinburgh November morning.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffling along this morning in my usual half asleep state past the leaf man who was the talk of the steamie two weeks ago (this&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[917,919,883,7,918,679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}