{"id":58144,"date":"2015-02-08T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58144"},"modified":"2015-02-08T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:38:35","slug":"yer-sunday-silly-look-up-in-the-sky-its-a-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58144","title":{"rendered":"Yer Sunday Silly:  Look, Up In the Sky!  It\u2019s a . . . WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears we in the USA have no monopoly on government stupidity \u2013 or gullibility. Looks like the folks in New Zealand can give us a run for out money.<\/p>\n<p>In the city of Auckland, the city council commissioned some public art. They paid the artist the equivalent $147,000 (US).<\/p>\n<p>They got what is purportedly a sculpture of a cloud \u2013 indeed, it\u2019s titled \u201cTransit Cloud\u201d . It\u2019s currently suspended over a walkway near a major transit hub, on public display. It\u2019s seen by thousands daily.<\/p>\n<p>I say it purportedly looks like a cloud because, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/leisure\/2015\/02\/07\/phallic-cloud-statue-causes-a-stir-in-new-zealand\/\"><i>that\u2019s not exactly what I\u2019d say it looks like to me<\/i><\/a>. But I guess YMMV.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptor says his \u201csculpture\u201d was indeed supposed to represent a cloud, and further that he \u201cwas confident it would look different once 50 metres (165 feet) of neon lights were connected to it and lit up inside the structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right. Somehow, I don\u2019t think so \u2013 at least not in broad daylight when people can see it.<\/p>\n<p>You could not make this sh!t up if you tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears we in the USA have no monopoly on government stupidity \u2013 or gullibility. &hellip; <a title=\"Yer Sunday Silly:  Look, Up In the Sky!  It\u2019s a . . . WTF?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58144\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yer Sunday Silly:  Look, Up In the Sky!  It\u2019s a . . . WTF?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,238,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-government-incompetence","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58144","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}