{"id":455,"date":"2003-07-24T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=455"},"modified":"2007-02-22T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:24:46","slug":"public-doggerel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Public Doggerel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public art usually manages to offend my aesthetic and political sensibilities at once. (My God, that&#8217;s hideous. And I <em>paid<\/em> for it!) But there are exceptions. A long, heavily-trafficked corridor in the Times Square subway station has eight metal signs nailed to the rafters, about fifty feet apart. If you happen to look up, instead of staring straight ahead as people are wont to do in subway stations, you will read the following, a line at a time:<\/p>\n<p>Overslept,<br \/>\nSo tired.<br \/>\nIf late,<br \/>\nGet fired.<br \/>\nWhy bother?<br \/>\nWhy the pain?<br \/>\nJust go home,<br \/>\nDo it again.<\/p>\n<p>I would be tempted to call this subversive if the word had not been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolidge.org\/balagan\/subversive_spring2003.html\">spoiled<\/a>. In any case it&#8217;s more entertaining than having Christo wrap Central Park, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/weblog\/2003_07_01_cano.html#105888740668980727\">a hell of a lot cheaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public art usually manages to offend my aesthetic and political sensibilities at once. (My God, that&#8217;s hideous. And I paid for it!) But there are exceptions. A long, heavily-trafficked corridor in the Times Square subway station has eight metal signs nailed to the rafters, about fifty feet apart. If you happen to look up, instead <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=455' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}