{"id":420,"date":"2009-04-12T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/decoding_animal_imagery_at_chi_1\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:21:28","slug":"decoding_animal_imagery_at_chi_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/decoding_animal_imagery_at_chi_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Decoding animal imagery at China View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cutline for the photo below, from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-04\/10\/content_11163293_3.htm\">China View<\/a>, reads:<\/p>\n<p><i>A lion appreciates with pleasure an Easter gift in Buenos Aires Zoo, Argentina, April 9, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lionchinadaily.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/lionchinadaily.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I see an old fellow contemplating his reduced circumstances; <i>China View<\/i> sees a celebration of the Easter bunny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I grow old . . .I grow old . . .<br \/>\n<br \/>I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.<\/p>\n<p>Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?<br \/>\n<br \/>I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.<br \/>\n<br \/>I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that they will sing to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>T.S. Eliot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.edu:8080\/%7Ewldciv\/world_civ_reader\/world_civ_reader_2\/eliot.html\"><i>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a lion could speak, we would not understand him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ludwig Wittgenstein, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/w\/wittgens.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics claim to decode images. What they decode is themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cutline for the photo below, from China View, reads: A lion appreciates with pleasure an Easter gift in Buenos Aires Zoo, Argentina, April 9, 2009. (Xinhua Photo) I see an old fellow contemplating his reduced circumstances; China View sees a celebration of the Easter bunny. I grow old . . .I grow old . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}