{"id":3212,"date":"2009-01-09T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2009-01-09T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T19:06:35","slug":"poor-excuse-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/poor-excuse-for-art","title":{"rendered":"Poor Excuse for Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I agree with the writer’s point \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that post-crash poverty freed Rembrandt do pursue his art for its own sake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it’s been a long time since I posted a Rembrandt link up here, so enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I agree with the writer’s point \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that post-crash poverty freed Rembrandt do pursue his art for its own sake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it’s been a long time since I posted a Rembrandt link up here, so enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[510],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-rembrandt","tag-holland-cotter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-PO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":849,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-greatest-and-most-natural-movement","url_meta":{"origin":3212,"position":0},"title":"The Greatest and Most Natural Movement","author":"Gil","date":"February 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Good article by Robert Hughes on Rembrandt, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth. 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