{"id":104857,"date":"2020-09-10T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T11:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104857"},"modified":"2020-09-09T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T02:43:38","slug":"the-tear-down-the-statue-crowd-has-moved-up-to-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104857","title":{"rendered":"The tear down the statue crowd has moved up to World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

The sculpture of the famous kiss photo from VJ Day has to be moved for some road construction. Apparently there’s an argument on whether to return it. #MeToo and all that. A great moment in American history of unbridled, spontaneous joy at the word that the world’s most devastating war was finally over should really be destroyed, right?<\/p>\n

The 25-foot “Unconditional Surrender” statue stands near Bayfront Park in downtown Sarasota.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the\u00a0Sarasota Public Art Committee<\/a>\u00a0voted to recommend that the city keep it in storage until a future permanent location can be found. The statue of a sailor kissing a nurse is based on a famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph taken in New York’s Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, \u2018V-J Day\u2019, marking the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

People who want the piece eventually returned to the bayfront say it honors veterans.<\/p>\n

Opponents argue the sculpture is a reminder of a sexual assault since history reveals the two people depicted did not know each other and that the kiss was unexpected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks be to the King of Battle for the tip.<\/p>\n

Sources; WUSF<\/a> and Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sculpture of the famous kiss photo from VJ Day has to be moved for some … The tear down the statue crowd has moved up to World War II<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,406,5,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-guest-link","category-politics","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104859,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104857\/revisions\/104859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}