{"id":128,"date":"2006-02-04T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-02-04T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T00:59:57","slug":"modern-art-a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Modern Art: a cautionary tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an abstract artist living up the road who has sold one of his paintings to Cambridge University Press, which is using it as the cover for Noam Chomsky&#8217;s next book. I can&#8217;t be sure, but from the web site, I think it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/uk\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521651476&amp;ss=cop\">must be this.<\/a> The artist was delighted, but pointed out that Chomsky had got the picture upside down. If that&#8217;s the way Professor Chomsky wants it, that&#8217;s how the book will be, replied the publishers. I only wish that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/obituaries\/story\/0,,1187897,00.html\">Larry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/interview\/story\/0,,984721,00.html\">Trask<\/a> were still alive to appreciate the story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an abstract artist living up the road who has sold one of his paintings to Cambridge University Press, which is using it as the cover for Noam Chomsky&#8217;s next book. I can&#8217;t be sure, but from the web &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}