{"id":3054,"date":"2017-08-21T00:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2017-08-21T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:43:16","slug":"trump-vs-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/trump-vs-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vs. The Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How far in advance do you RSVP to an event?&nbsp; They say that gay men typically wait until the last minute &#8211; probably because we are waiting for a better offer.&nbsp; Personally, I can change my mind about going to something even as I&#8217;m parking!&nbsp; So I find it fascinating that our &#8220;president&#8221; (such as he is) and his spousal equivalent have opted out of attending the&nbsp;<strong><em>Kennedy Center Honors&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>in DECEMBER!&nbsp; That, of course, assumes he is still our president in December.&nbsp; Given the current political climate, it is conceivable that had he gone, he&#8217;d have had the worst night in the theatre of any president since&nbsp;<strong>Lincoln<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>This move by&nbsp;<strong>Mr. Trump&nbsp;<\/strong>came after two arts-connected events.&nbsp; 1) Three of the five&nbsp;<em>Kennedy Center Honorees&nbsp;<\/em>stated they would skip the reception with the President at the White House and B) the entire 17-person&nbsp;<em>President&#8217;s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities&nbsp;<\/em>resigned&nbsp;<em>en masse<\/em>.&nbsp; This is significant since it is the first entire White House department to resign.&nbsp; Some have quipped that nobody cares about the actions of people in the arts.&nbsp; I&#8217;d call that shortsighted.&nbsp; Many people go to foreign lands to visit museums and architecture.&nbsp; Almost nobody ever visits historical sites of accountants and economists.&nbsp; Arts matter.&nbsp; Arts endure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far in advance do you RSVP to an event?&nbsp; They say that gay men typically wait until the last minute &#8211; probably because we are waiting for a better offer.&nbsp; Personally, I can change my mind about going to something even as I&#8217;m parking!&nbsp; So I find it fascinating that our &#8220;president&#8221; (such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}