{"id":65,"date":"2008-09-10T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:22:41","slug":"a_picture_as_they_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/09\/a_picture_as_they_say\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture, As They Say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Every morning I think about posting a bit on the race for the White House, but then I decide to keep such things in more appropriate places, like the editorial pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/\">small Ohio newspapers<\/a>. Seriously, if you live or once lived in a battleground state, take a minute to see what&#8217;s in the local paper and write the editor. Reach eyes that don&#8217;t read blog posts with a single email!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Each day I think issues of national political concern cannot deteriorate much further, and of course I am almost always wrong.\u00c2\u00a0Today, I at least came across a musically relevant connection. It did nothing to\u00c2\u00a0dissipate\u00c2\u00a0my anger but at least it made me laugh&#8211;albeit in one of those awkward, no-reasonable-way-to-react-so-I&#8217;m-laughing kind of ways.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"electionx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/electionx.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/punditkitchen.com\/?s=barack+obama\">plenty more<\/a>. I particularly love <a href=\"http:\/\/punditkitchen.com\/2008\/09\/10\/political-pictures-sarah-palin-precious-peta\/\">this one<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning I think about posting a bit on the race for the White House, but then I decide to keep such things in more appropriate places, like the editorial pages of small Ohio newspapers. Seriously, if you live or once lived in a battleground state, take a minute to see what&#8217;s in the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}