{"id":9976,"date":"2016-07-13T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/absence\/"},"modified":"2016-09-04T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:24:31","slug":"absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I used to work across from this building, and prior to its renovation\/takeover by a different corporate owner, the lobby was home\/host to a great masterwork of American art, <a href=\"https:\/\/us.axa.com\/about-axa\/bentonmural.html\">America Today<\/a> by Thomas Hart Benton. That mural has been donated to the Met, where you now have* to pay extortionate entrance fees to see it. <\/p>\n<p>As a replacement, the public gets to see this bland, anodyne piece of corporate nothingness. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=930 border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/p6150037.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>*the Met is a public institution and as such has &#8220;suggested&#8221; entrance fees, so some people get bold and only pay a penny. Most people do not realize that you can actually do this and take the prices at face value. There was actually a lawsuit over how they worded their signs and &#8220;enforced&#8221; payment &#8211; which the Met lost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work across from this building, and prior to its renovation\/takeover by a different corporate owner, the lobby was home\/host to a great masterwork of American art, America Today by Thomas Hart Benton. That mural has been donated to the Met, where you now have* to pay extortionate entrance fees to see it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[22,29,14,10],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6ZBi-absence","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}