{"id":1214,"date":"2014-02-24T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-orange-and-the-dream-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/02\/24\/the-orange-and-the-dream-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orange and the Dream of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloaked in mystery and, until modern times, available only to the elite, the orange has been known as the fruit of the gods and a symbol of health, wealth, and love. The dream of California, since its discovery by Europeans, has been that it is a place of plenty, of potential, of personal opportunity. When the orange and California were finally linked, their partnership created a compelling fantasy and a fantastic reality. The Orange and the Dream of California takes a lively, literary, and extraordinarily visual look at the symbiotic relationship between the Golden State and its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153golden apple.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The orange became a symbol of everything California promised, and California became the center of the Orange Empire. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The orange and California have built upon one another for hundreds of years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains author David Boul\u00c3\u00a9, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crafting a vision that appeals to our universal desire for beauty, health, enchantment, and reinvention.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Books will be available for purchase and personally signed by the author.<\/p>\n<p>LA in Focus is a free lecture series presented by Photo Friends of the LAPL and generously sponsored by Christy &amp; Stephen McAvoy photofriends.org<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1214\" data-postid=\"1214\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1214 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloaked in mystery and, until modern times, available only to the elite, the orange has been known as the fruit of the gods and a symbol of health, wealth, and love. The dream of California, since its discovery by Europeans, has been that it is a place of plenty, of potential, of personal opportunity. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,12,14,18,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}