{"id":10572,"date":"2007-07-28T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/28\/10572.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:54","slug":"topple-the-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/28\/topple-the-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Topple the statues!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Possibly the best meme ever, courtesy of Tyler Green over at the Modern Art Notes blog: name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/man\/2007\/07\/politicians_who_should_be_well.html\">three U.S. politicians and the works of art to which I'd like to see them chained<\/a> (the reference is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/printedition\/calendar\/cl-et-getty25jul25,0,883310.story?coll=cl-calendar\">Italy<\/a>, and if you are not resident in the US, feel free to adapt to local conditions).\n<p>So. This is surprisingly difficult. Or at least, it&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to avoid cheap shots, such as chaining Dick Cheney to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.vip.mud.yahoo.com\/photos\/elfinity\/241459593\/in\/pool-swarthmorecollege\/\">Slide Rock<\/a> and then throwing art and veep into the ocean together.\n<ul><li>I&#8217;d rather like to Senator Diane Feinstein to chain herself to Robert Arneson&#8217;s sculpture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comtogether.com\/art\/miscpix\/moscone.htm\">George Moscone<\/a> for a while. No particular political point, but boy, wouldn&#8217;t that be something?<\/li>\n<li>Somebody has got to be chained to the Statue of Liberty, but who? Rudy Giuliani? Tom Tancredo? Alberto Gonzales? No, forget the Statue of Liberty, I want Mitt Romney to chain himself to Daniel Chester French&#8217;s statue of William Lloyd Garrison on Commonwealth Avenue: &#8220;I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD&#8221;. Hee hee.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d like the eventual Democratic Party nominee for President next summer to chain herself (or himself) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/powers_of_persuasion\/four_freedoms\/four_freedoms.html\">Norman Rockwell&#8217;s Four Freedoms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>Your turn, Gentle Readers.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly the best meme ever, courtesy of Tyler Green over at the Modern Art Notes blog: name three U.S. politicians and the works of art to which I&#8217;d like to see them chained (the reference is to Italy, and if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18070,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/18070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}