{"id":549,"date":"2005-09-18T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=549"},"modified":"2005-09-18T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T19:55:42","slug":"cuban-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/09\/18\/cuban-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003684\"><\/a>So there&#8217;s this guy standing out in front of the Portland Art Museum, waving a sign.  &#8220;This Museum Is Racist&#8221;, or something to that effect, with a URL that anyone curious to know about the cause can go to for more information.  He also is holding a portrait.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on walking up to him to ask what his cause is, but a man I&#8217;m familiar with by sight (he&#8217;s fairly distinct&#8230; a skinny guy who wears a beret, I always see him taking a great deal of photographs around town, leading me to suspect he may have a photo-blog) beats me to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, why do you think this museum is racist?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I am Cuban.  This museum does not show my art.&#8221;  The man&#8217;s English is shaky enough that his statement needs further clarification.<br \/>\n&#8220;The museum is racist because it doesn&#8217;t have (points at him) <i>your<\/i> art?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No.  I am Cuban.  Cuban.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The museum is racist because it doesn&#8217;t have Cuban Art?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.  That&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then takes his photograph.  I can&#8217;t really comment on the derth of Cuban Art in the Portland Art Museum.  It does have a pretty good Asian collection, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this guy standing out in front of the Portland Art Museum, waving a sign. &#8220;This Museum Is Racist&#8221;, or something to that effect, with a URL that anyone curious to know about the cause can go to for more information. He also is holding a portrait. I plan on walking up to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}