{"id":1025,"date":"2016-11-14T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:52:57","slug":"what-happened-here-last-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2016\/11\/what-happened-here-last-tuesday.html","title":{"rendered":"What happened here last Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Forsyth County, a little north of the center of North Carolina, a state that chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by 5% in last week\u2019s election.\u00a0 Here is how this county voted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President: Clinton (Dem) 53%, Trump (Rep) 43%<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1026 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280-300x294.png\" alt=\"vote-1319435_1280\" width=\"176\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280-768x754.png 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280-1024x1005.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-1319435_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Senate: Ross (Dem) 51%, Burr (Rep) 46%<\/li>\n<li>House: Brannon (Dem) 54%, Foxx (Rep) 46%<\/li>\n<li>Governor: Cooper (Dem) 56%, McCrory (Rep) 42%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many minds are puzzling over the extreme differences between adjacent communities this week, and mine is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone looking for predictions, I have none to offer: \u00a0the only thing I can confidently predict about the future is that it will be something I never would have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>I spend a lot of my time on the campus of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsa.edu\"><strong>UNC School of the Arts<\/strong><\/a>, where a little over a thousand artists have strong opinions and the creative capacity to express them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve observed a burst of artistic activity in the last few days, much of it unfocused, some very precisely targeted.\u00a0 To the degree that art is both a reflection and an influencer of reality, these burgeoning young artists bear watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Forsyth County, a little north of the center of North Carolina, a state that chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by 5% in last week\u2019s election.\u00a0 Here is how this county voted: President: Clinton (Dem) 53%, Trump (Rep) 43% Senate: Ross (Dem) 51%, Burr (Rep) 46% House: Brannon (Dem) 54%, Foxx (Rep) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1026,"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-1025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}