{"id":194,"date":"2010-10-06T00:56:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-10-06T00:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:56:35","slug":"the-bird-is-the-most-popular-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"The Bird is the Most Popular Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/premesso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/premesso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0467-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giving or receiving?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Riding my bike home from work I decided to go through Piazza Affari to check out the Borsa.  I was left gape-mouthed by a gigantic middle finger.  I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was an accident or not.  It&#8217;s not.  By Cattelan, and mild by his standards &#8212; recall the infamous Hitler piece of a few years ago, and his hanging children.  I&#8217;m all for eye-turning pulbic art, but one must wonder &#8212; who&#8217;s getting the gesture here, and who is giving it?  Or is that the tantalizing ambiguity?  I&#8217;ll ponder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding my bike home from work I decided to go through Piazza Affari to check out the Borsa. I was left gape-mouthed by a gigantic middle finger. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was an accident or not. It&#8217;s not. By Cattelan, and mild by his standards &#8212; recall the infamous Hitler piece of a few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bird is the Most Popular Finger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,48],"tags":[415,417,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}