{"id":671,"date":"2005-10-31T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=671"},"modified":"2005-12-11T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T16:57:42","slug":"mad-about-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mad-about-madrid","title":{"rendered":"Mad About Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went a-walkin’ for a few hours, down to Atocha station and that modern art museum. Took more<\/em> wonderful pix, but you’ll have to wait, unless I can get my Flickr account up and running one evening.<\/p>\n

I spent time with the Picassos, Miros, and the Dalis, but the postwar painters left me cold\/bored. Similarly, the contemporary exhibit was just disastrous, but helped reinforce my belief that most contemporary art is crap.<\/p>\n

Next three days, I’ll be at the conference, but I hope to get to the Prado<\/a> and the Thyssen-Bornemisza<\/a> on Friday. Or I’ll take a day trip to Toledo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went a-walkin’ for a few hours, down to Atocha station and that modern art museum. Took more wonderful pix, but you’ll have to wait, unless I can get my Flickr account up and running one evening. I spent time with the Picassos, Miros, and the Dalis, but the postwar painters left me cold\/bored. Similarly, the … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Mad About Madrid”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madrid","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-aP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":738,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/el-sueno-de-jamon-produce-monstruos","url_meta":{"origin":671,"position":0},"title":"El Sueno De Jamon Produce Monstruos","author":"Gil","date":"November 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to the Prado today, but it was pretty boring. 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