{"id":1791,"date":"2011-07-09T23:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T23:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2011-07-09T23:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T23:40:41","slug":"252-modern-art-is-a-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2011\/07\/09\/252-modern-art-is-a-con\/","title":{"rendered":"#252: Modern Art is a Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in upstate New York, we decided to go visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabeacon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dia: Beacon<\/a> to see some modern art. \u00a0We saw some canvases and some florescent lighting fixtures and a couple of army blankets. \u00a0Mind blowing. \u00a0Not in its&#8217; mind-blowing artfulness, but in its&#8217; mind-blowing ability to inspire me to ridicule it instantly. \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry, we later went to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">StormKing<\/a> and saw a large floating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lichtensteinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Lichtenstein<\/a>, which, frankly, made it all better.<\/p>\n<p>We were in Chelsea, a predominantly gay New York City neighborhood, the night New York announced they had legalized gay marriage. \u00a0 \u00a0I didn&#8217;t sleep that night. \u00a0Was it because all the local gay couples were going crazy in the streets? \u00a0No. \u00a0It was because I was worried that the rental car would be towed and that the dude screaming at 4am was going to slaughter his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see some real modern art, check out friend of the show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelelliothawkinsburgos.com\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Elliot Hawkins Burgos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in upstate New York, we decided to go visit\u00a0Dia: Beacon to see some modern art. \u00a0We saw some canvases and some florescent lighting fixtures and a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premium-podcast","category-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}