{"id":627,"date":"2008-12-23T13:29:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-12-23T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:46:52","slug":"in-search-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In retrospect, I think my 2008 might have been somewhat lacking in culture. One of the few culture-y things I can remember doing this year was the <a title=\"Vacation Day 3\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=561\" target=\"_self\">Corning Museum of Glass<\/a>. While I was there, I took this picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chihuly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-628 aligncenter\" title=\"chihuly\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chihuly-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chihuly Sculpture\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chihuly-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chihuly.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. It is called &#8220;Fern Green Tower,&#8221; which is a lovely name, though the overall effect of the piece seems more yellow than green to me (but hey, that&#8217;s one of the nice things about being an artist&#8212;you can pick any names you want for your pieces).<\/p>\n<p>While Faithful Reader and I were zooming along the highway recently, I saw an advertisement for a local Chihuly exhibit. It is at the Rhode Island School of Design&#8217;s <a title=\"Museum of Art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.risdmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Art<\/a>. It ends on January 4, so anyone who wants to see it should get going.<\/p>\n<p>Faithful Reader, would you like to squeeze a little more culture into your 2008 by accompanying me to this exhibit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In retrospect, I think my 2008 might have been somewhat lacking in culture. One of the few culture-y things I can remember doing this year was the Corning Museum of Glass. While I was there, I took this picture. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,100],"tags":[143,142,144,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}