{"id":91296,"date":"2023-04-03T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91296"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:28:07","slug":"wheres-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/04\/03\/wheres-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I went to Boston\u2019s <strong><em>Museum<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> of <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Science<\/em><\/strong>, which is actually located in Cambridge.&nbsp; As a kid in grammar school, we\u2019d take field trips there every year, so I knew every inch of the museum \u2013 including the <em>Hall of Human Life<\/em>.&nbsp; In the past, adorning the entrance of this display was a life-size sculpture of a nude woman crouching on her hind flanks and holding up a newborn baby \u2013 ala <strong><em>The Lion King<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Much of the museum has changed, so while the exhibit is still there, the nude woman was nowhere to be found.&nbsp; However, in a virtually uninhabited section was a room dedicated to the museum\u2019s past.&nbsp; And there, tucked away in the back of a little alcove, behind <em>Plexiglas<\/em>, was the nude woman!&nbsp; A friend of mine insists that it is the detail to her nippular area that\u2019s caused her to be cloistered.&nbsp; I\u2019d be happy to purchase some tassels or a bikini top if it would help get that poor woman out of the closet.<\/p>\n<p>This story has an eerie connection to one recently in the news.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure you all heard about the principal in Tallahassee, Florida who was fired after showing a photo of <strong>Michelangelo<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>David <\/em><\/strong>to a class studying <em>Renaissance <\/em>art.&nbsp; If it was shown in a <em>Sex Ed <\/em>class, it would surely be to illustrate the difference between a grower and a shower.&nbsp; I hadn\u2019t realized how much Davey and I had in common, but that is neither hither nor yon.&nbsp; Or is that yawn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I went to Boston\u2019s Museum of Science, which is actually located in Cambridge.&nbsp; As a kid in grammar school, we\u2019d take field trips there every year, so I knew every inch of the museum \u2013 including the Hall of Human Life.&nbsp; In the past, adorning the entrance of this display was a life-size<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91296","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\/91296","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=91296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91305,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91296\/revisions\/91305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}