{"id":762,"date":"2009-07-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/come_into_my_parlor_said_obama\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T12:00:00","slug":"come_into_my_parlor_said_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/come_into_my_parlor_said_obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Come into my parlor, said Obama to the fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bothering President Obama is not a good idea if you&#8217;re a fly. (Much-watched video encounter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5rbUH_iVjYw\">here<\/a>.) There&#8217;s something about the president&#8217;s calm focus followed by quick action that reminded me of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinechalmers.com\/houseflies.cfm\">Catherine Chalmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"catherinechalmerstoad2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/catherinechalmerstoad2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" \/><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"catherinechalmerstoad3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/catherinechalmerstoad3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" \/><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"catherinechalmerstoad1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/catherinechalmerstoad1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/span><br \/>There are always more insects.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/catherinechalmersfly-8307.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/catherinechalmersfly-8307.html','popup','width=400,height=395,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/catherinechalmersfly-thumb-300x296-8307.jpg\" alt=\"catherinechalmersfly.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/catherinechalmersfly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"catherinechalmersfly2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/catherinechalmersfly2-thumb-300x224-8310.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The history of the world, my sweet,<br \/>Is who gets eaten and who gets to eat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Sweeney Todd<\/i>, Stephen Sondheim <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bothering President Obama is not a good idea if you&#8217;re a fly. (Much-watched video encounter here.) There&#8217;s something about the president&#8217;s calm focus followed by quick action that reminded me of this: Catherine Chalmers There are always more insects. The history of the world, my sweet,Is who gets eaten and who gets to eat. Sweeney [&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-762","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\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}