{"id":3459,"date":"2016-07-19T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2016-07-15T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:25:06","slug":"choosing-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/07\/choosing-the-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the path"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3460\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"(CC) Sam Grover via Flickr\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/splitting-path.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(CC) Sam Grover via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jumper\/2014\/03\/can-arts-organizations-be-both-art-focused-and-community-focused\/\" target=\"_blank\">Over on her ArtsJournal blog, Jumper, Diane Ragsdale examines<\/a> the means versus ends issue discussed by Lyz Crane in our last blog post. The question of whether the arts can truly contribute to community building is still widely debated. She concludes that the path between the two does not have to split, and that arts organizations have long worked to use arts and culture to bring people together. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on her ArtsJournal blog, Jumper, Diane Ragsdale examines the means versus ends issue discussed by Lyz Crane in our last blog post. The question of whether the arts can truly contribute to community building is still widely debated. She concludes that the path between the two does not have to split, and that arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[28,548],"tags":[25],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-3459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"category-creative-community-fellows","9":"tag-community","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}