{"id":19638,"date":"2010-07-06T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2010-07-06T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T15:46:47","slug":"defending-norman-rockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19638","title":{"rendered":"Defending Norman Rockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to bleg for my own site, but WaPo managed to piss me off this weekend, and (surprisingly) it was about Art.\u00a0 If you guys are horrifically bored, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnpit.us\/2010\/07\/defending-norman-and-defining-\u201ccourage-\u201d\/\">come on over and let me know what you think.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Founders risked \u201cpowder and ball\u201d so a painter could espouse the virtues of a communist printing pamphlets? I thought that a town hall meeting was exactly what this country was predicated on; being able to espouse whatever view you wanted in a public forum in an effort to advocate to our elected representatives?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Blake would view Serrano\u2019s \u201cPiss Christ\u201d which features a crucifix in a jar of urine as \u201ccourageous.\u201d Or perhaps that mighty brave Robert Mapplethorpe who heroically published a picture of a bullwhip inserted into his anus? \u00a0Which is more brave and courageous to you: a whip hanging out of a guy\u2019s fourth point of contact, or a man who gorged himself on bananas and donuts just for the opportunity to serve his country?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to bleg for my own site, but WaPo managed to piss me off this weekend, &hellip; <a title=\"Defending Norman Rockwell\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19638\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defending Norman Rockwell<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}