{"id":13966,"date":"2018-01-26T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:06:05","slug":"without-further-comment-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/26\/without-further-comment-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Further Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/the-white-house-wanted-a-van-gogh-the-guggenheim-offered-a-used-solid-gold-toilet\/2018\/01\/25\/38d574fc-0154-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.1be066cc74ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a title=\"apps.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/documents\/local\/the-letter-from-guggenheim\/2727\/\" shape=\"rect\">emailed response<\/a> from the Guggenheim\u2019s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump\u2019s private living quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/artwork\/1486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" shape=\"rect\">\u201cLandscape With Snow,\u201d<\/a> the 1888 van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.<\/p>\n<p>The curator\u2019s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet \u2014 an interactive work titled \u201cAmerica\u201d that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo: The emailed response from the Guggenheim\u2019s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump\u2019s private living quarters. Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/26\/without-further-comment-4\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}