{"id":456,"date":"2011-04-27T09:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-04-27T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:52:10","slug":"the-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/04\/the-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a quote that gets thrown around when arts talk turns to impact: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t measure it, you can&#8217;t manage it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The economy and the government budget standing as they do, discussions surrounding the perceived &#8220;value&#8221; of the arts (in every definition of the word) are getting a lot of air time. I&#8217;ve been really impressed by the persuasive power of efforts like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chrisbishop.com\/post\/3444680085\/why-save-pbs-click-image-to-enlarge-on\">this one in support of PBS<\/a>. Then, this morning, I saw the video below and was really blown away:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22655744?portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been considering what a similar piece related to the arts covered here on ArtsJournal would look like and what it might accomplish. What facts and figures would you include in such a presentation?<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/quipsologies\/archives\/april_2011\/arminvit_159.php\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a quote that gets thrown around when arts talk turns to impact: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t measure it, you can&#8217;t manage it.&#8221; The economy and the government budget standing as they do, discussions surrounding the perceived &#8220;value&#8221; of the arts (in every definition of the word) are getting a lot of air time. I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457,"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":[55,50,52,48,49,53,51,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-advocacy","9":"tag-chris-bishop","10":"tag-chris-harmon","11":"tag-facts","12":"tag-figures","13":"tag-oil","14":"tag-oild","15":"tag-pbs","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}