{"id":434,"date":"2009-06-24T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/24\/art-appreciation-class\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T14:41:00","slug":"art-appreciation-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/24\/art-appreciation-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Art appreciation class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shockingly bad photo* of a painting in a local restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SkI7RSHgL3I\/AAAAAAAABH8\/jlHmn54h9KI\/s1600-h\/IMG_0585.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 400px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SkI7RSHgL3I\/AAAAAAAABH8\/jlHmn54h9KI\/s400\/IMG_0585.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Mr E Man and I ate there for the first time last week, and had a disagreement about the interpretation of this painting. It reminded both of us of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Moulin Rouge<\/span>, obviously, but I was struck by the contrast between Nicole Kidman&#8217;s visible joy and sense of fun in her scene on the swing, and the sadness on the face of this woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s not sad&#8221;, opined my husband, &#8220;she&#8217;s scared. Of falling off the swing, or of the audience grabbing her or something&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The waiter agreed with me, even though Mr E Man was holding the bill and his credit card.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a terrible photo, but what do you think?!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%\">*Mr E Man has borrowed my iPhone AGAIN today, leaving me in the dark ages with no music to listen to or games to play. If this continues I&#8217;m hoping he&#8217;ll want to keep it, so I can justify getting the new model with quadruple the capacity and a much better camera.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shockingly bad photo* of a painting in a local restaurant. Mr E Man and I ate there for the first time last week, and had a disagreement about the interpretation of this painting. It reminded both of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/06\/24\/art-appreciation-class\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}