{"id":3973,"date":"2009-04-30T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2009-04-30T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:41:40","slug":"muddled-obama-messianic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muddled-obama-messianic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Muddled Obama messianic art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=96138\" target=\"_blank\">does it all<\/a>: tears the veil of the temple, stretches out his arms as if on a cross and wears a crown of thorns:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/images\/090425obamathetruth.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"363\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be &#8220;crowned&#8221; in messianic imagery at New York City&#8217;s Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Michael D&#8217;Antuono&#8217;s painting &#8220;The Truth&#8221; &#8211; featuring Obama with his arms outstretched and wearing a crown of thorns upon his head &#8211; will be unveiled on April 29 at the Square&#8217;s South Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Like others in the news who have depicted Obama in Christ-like imagery, D&#8217;Antuono insists he isn&#8217;t claiming the man is Messiah, but only inviting &#8220;individual interpretations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;The Truth,&#8217; like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder,&#8221; claims the exhibit&#8217;s press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the intrinsic absurdity of the painting, &#8220;The Truth&#8221;, the last sentence identifies Obama more with Pontius Pilate than the Messiah: one of the perils of a biblically illiterate artist attempting to paint Messianic pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama does it all: tears the veil of the temple, stretches out his arms as if on a cross and wears a crown of thorns: On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be &#8220;crowned&#8221; in messianic imagery at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muddled-obama-messianic-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":43,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,75],"tags":[2047,2080],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-christianity","tag-art","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","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=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}