{"id":1829,"date":"2019-04-01T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2019-04-04T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:28:31","slug":"happy-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Happy April Fool’s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had an urge to make some postcards for fun and to use as examples for upcoming Creative Commons presentations. I did it in March 2018<\/a>, mostly using images found at the Digital Public Library of America. That is where I started this year, too.
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I don’t think there is any connection between April Fool’s Day and the The Fool, “first” card of most Tarot decks. I use the marks because it is usually numbered 0. Tarot cards, once the stuff of carnival midways and roadside shacks, are making<\/a> their mark<\/a> in the mainstream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Tarot of Marseilles<\/a> dates back to the mid-17th century. It has roots in Switzerland and the card I used was created in 17551 by Claude Burdel, a master card maker and engraver in Fribourg, Switzerland. I found the card and went looking for “foolish” poems. The lines from Cat Stevens<\/a> seemed to float to the top of my brain.<\/p>\n

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And that made me think about my favorite movie, Harold and Maude<\/em>.\u00a0 The ending is one of the best I can remember. NOTE: this is THE ENDING, so if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t watch it. Go watch the movie, instead.<\/p>\n