{"id":53789,"date":"2022-11-08T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=53789"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:22:13","slug":"with-democracy-in-peril-may-the-midterms-land-as-gracefully-as-amelies-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/11\/with-democracy-in-peril-may-the-midterms-land-as-gracefully-as-amelies-pigeons.html","title":{"rendered":"With Democracy in Peril<\/em><\/font>
May the Midterms Land as Gracefully as Am\u00e9lie’s Pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The staff here has followed from a distance the drawings of a young Dutch art student, Am\u00e9lie by name. She was precociously talented at 13<\/a>, at 14<\/a>, and at 15<\/a>. She is now 16, and her studies continue with work more accomplished than ever. Watch this space for some of her other recent drawings. Regardless of the midterm outcome, we will be posting them soon. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Pigeons \u00a9 2022 by Am\u00e9lie<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Postscript: <\/strong>Nov. 10 \u2014 The Democrats oughta take Am\u00e9lie’s pigeons as their aspirational logo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The staff here has followed from a distance the drawings of a young Dutch art student, Am\u00e9lie by name. She was precociously talented at 13, at 14, and at 15. She is now 16, and her studies continue with work more accomplished than ever. Regardless of the midterm outcome, we will be posting some of her other recent drawings soon.
\nUpdate Nov. 10 \u2014 The Dems oughta take Am\u00e9lie’s pigeons as their aspirational logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53788,"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":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-amelies-pigeons.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dZz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789","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=53789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53846,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53789\/revisions\/53846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}