{"id":4271,"date":"2015-10-01T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2015-10-01T23:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:29:47","slug":"finally-talks-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"FINALLY SOMEONE STANDS UP FOR THE ARTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elected office holder, I mean.\u00a0 And now a Presidential <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/artintheair\/2015\/09\/30\/bernie-sanders-pledges-arts-support-in-new-video\/\">candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can guess who I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, every cognitive and economic as well as spiritual and aesthetic reason to promote the arts and arts education. It&#8217;s just that, once again, virtually the entire Democratic party capitulated&#8211;this time, to the GOP&#8217;s sting operation against the National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s. The Republicans have repeatedly tried to demonize anyone who breathes a word in support of art that is not corporate-backed popular entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary has made some of the the right noises, and I compliment her on that, but Sanders is once again the most assertive of the Democratic bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elected office holder, I mean.\u00a0 And now a Presidential candidate. You can guess who I&#8217;m talking about. There is, of course, every cognitive and economic as well as spiritual and aesthetic reason to promote the arts and arts education. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4271\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}