{"id":1282,"date":"2005-10-30T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/dazzled_and_distracted\/"},"modified":"2005-10-30T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T19:39:05","slug":"dazzled_and_distracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/dazzled_and_distracted.html","title":{"rendered":"DAZZLED AND DISTRACTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Bullshitter-in-Chief in action\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/bullshitter%20in%20action.jpg\" width=200 align=right border=0\/> From a conscript in the Army of the Tireless, this photo &#8220;found while browsing&#8221; and caption for same:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon hearing of the ravages caused by hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush went into immediate action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He sends this reference, too: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051028\/film_nm\/leisure_gibson_dc\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Sans Commentaire<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, &#8216;cept mebee&#8230;&#8230;wa?&#8221; To which we say,  &#8220;Oy&#8221; (Mayan for whoopeee!)<br \/>\nAnd from way Down Under: Emma Rodgers, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/arts\/articulate\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Articulate<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, writes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/arts\/articulate\/200510\/s1493479.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>This is modern art?<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matthew Collings has issues with what he sees as the public&#8217;s great charade of pretending to like modern art &#8230; as if we&#8217;re pretending we get it. I think he described it as a &#8220;faux love&#8221; or &#8220;pseudo interest.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Collings is the noted Brit broadcaster, author (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1901785009\/qid=1130601602\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_3_2\/026-7826647-1283669\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Blimey&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1901785033\/qid=1130601602\/sr=1-4\/ref=sr_1_3_4\/026-7826647-1283669\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;It Hurts,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> etc.), presenter of Channel Four&#8217;s Turner Prize news coverage, and &#8212; we should have known &#8212; an artist himself.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a conscript in the Army of the Tireless, this photo &#8220;found while browsing&#8221; and caption for same: Upon hearing of the ravages caused by hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush went into immediate action. He sends this reference, too: Articulate, writes: &#8220;Blimey&#8221; and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}