{"id":1749,"date":"2008-03-11T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:15:51","slug":"moma-a-starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1749\/moma-a-starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"MoMA Guard Before A Starry Night, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2154790363\/\" title=\"MoMA, Guard Before &quot;A Starry Night&quot; by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2388\/2154790363_42ffe21a9a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"MoMA, Guard Before &quot;A Starry Night&quot;\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>MoMA Guard Before A Starry Night, 2007<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bighugelabs.com\/onblack.php?id=2154790363&#038;bg=white&#038;size=large\">Light box enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, how to take a picture of a famous painting and the people around it and show neither.<\/p>\n<p>The security standing beside Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;A Starry Night&#8221; was tight-lipped, solemn, imposing while attempting to remain as anonymous and impassive as possible, surrounded by people who   are intended to be aware of his presence but at the same time assuming obliviousness.<\/p>\n<p>Here he rises on his toes, briefly relieving the monotony and the stress of his pose, and  takes on an almost otherworldly presence, the guardian becoming the angel of &#8220;A Starry Night&#8221;, close to unhinging from the earth and rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoMA Guard Before A Starry Night, 2007 Light box enlargement Or, how to take a picture of a famous painting and the people around it and show neither. The security standing beside Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;A Starry Night&#8221; was tight-lipped, solemn, imposing while attempting to remain as anonymous and impassive as possible, surrounded by people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-moma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}