{"id":4887,"date":"2016-05-14T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T04:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2016-05-14T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T04:12:15","slug":"art-is-meant-to-be-uplifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"Art is meant to be uplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Art,&#8221; announces Pat Buchanan to Charlie Rose, &#8220;is meant to be uplifting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a relief! \u00a0After all these years I&#8217;d never realized that Art had a moral purpose. \u00a0No more need now to be upset by Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, Picasso and Goya, Stravinsky and Berg, Sophocles and Williams. \u00a0Pat has clarified the rules, set the noble standard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ned Rorem (2000) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lies: A Diary 1986-1999. \u00a0<\/span>Cambridge: MA: Da Capo Press, p.290.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Art,&#8221; announces Pat Buchanan to Charlie Rose, &#8220;is meant to be uplifting.&#8221; What a relief! \u00a0After all these years I&#8217;d never realized that Art had a moral purpose. \u00a0No more need now to be upset by Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, Picasso and Goya, Stravinsky and Berg, Sophocles and Williams. \u00a0Pat has clarified the rules, set the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1271,1259,1270,45],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purpose-of-the-arts","tag-moral-purpose","tag-ned-rorem","tag-pat-buchanan","tag-purpose-of-the-arts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}