{"id":12729,"date":"2011-04-18T23:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T03:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12729"},"modified":"2011-04-18T23:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T03:44:40","slug":"all-in-the-name-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/all-in-the-name-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"All in the name of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andres Serrano is the artist responsible for the notorious Piss Christ, a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist\u2019s urine.<\/p>\n<p>Christians aren\u2019t entirely happy about this and the rotten spoilsports <em>will<\/em> keep trying to destroy it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/apr\/18\/andres-serrano-piss-christ-destroyed-christian-protesters\" target=\"_blank\">latest attempt<\/a> occurred on Palm Sunday with a bunch of intolerant Christians attacking the exhibit with a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m all for free speech, so in a spirit of tolerance, artistic licence and love of orange, rather than spoil the fun by being a philistine, I have my own contribution to offer.<\/p>\n<p>I call it Piss Serrano \u2013 the artist and his girlfriend submerged in the same fluid. Still his fluid.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonably priced prints can be ordered by emailing me from the Contact Page.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12730\" title=\"Serano\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Serano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"873\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andres Serrano is the artist responsible for the notorious Piss Christ, a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist\u2019s urine. Christians aren\u2019t entirely happy about this and the rotten spoilsports will keep trying to destroy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/all-in-the-name-of-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[379,2047,1232],"class_list":["post-12729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-andres-serrano","tag-art","tag-piss-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}