{"id":852,"date":"2009-07-25T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/gnomes_-_a_dissent\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T21:39:06","slug":"gnomes_-_a_dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/gnomes_-_a_dissent.html","title":{"rendered":"Gnomes &#8211; a dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous post, none too flattering to gnomes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/its-official-a-gnome-can-be-a.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riesniemi.com\/\">Ries Niemi<\/a> comes to their defense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gnomes are always vulgar and almost always in the wrong.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou ought to hear what gnomes have to say about Art Critics!<br \/>\nBritish PM John Major&#8217;s Father was a professional maker of Garden Gnomes, and Phillipe Starck&#8217;s gnomes are friendly and lovable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gnomesniemi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/gnomesniemi.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"236\" height=\"116\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Personally, besides being a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/1\/1155892_9d58556db2_o.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/73621375%40N00\/1155892&amp;usg=__z-kio7TNSA6zq4l3yjNEhuhpyFQ=&amp;h=768&amp;w=1024&amp;sz=43&amp;hl=en&amp;start=5&amp;sig2=P057kpTjsz5bBQs2vkvsiw&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=rYRU6pvwcEoTxM:&amp;tbnh=98&amp;tbnw=130&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dtroll%2Bseattle%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1&amp;ei=43xrSp2-FILUsQPOi8SWBQ\">Troll liberation front<\/a>, I like gnomes quite a lot, and find them neither vulgar nor in the wrong. However, I take a very dim view of poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous post, none too flattering to gnomes, here. Ries Niemi comes to their defense: &#8220;Gnomes are always vulgar and almost always in the wrong.&#8221; You ought to hear what gnomes have to say about Art Critics! British PM John Major&#8217;s Father was a professional maker of Garden Gnomes, and Phillipe Starck&#8217;s gnomes are friendly and [&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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}