{"id":12618,"date":"2011-06-03T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2011-06-03T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:04:53","slug":"worth-a-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12618","title":{"rendered":"Worth a trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Museum of Art is holding its Centennial celebration in honor of its anniversary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noma.org\/exhibitions.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Ancestors of Congo Square<\/a> exhibit is certainly worth a trip even though the way it was curated leaves something to be desired &#8211; namely dates (what were they thinking?) but the pieces are exquisite.<\/p>\n<p>The Madeline Albright pin collection is also worth seeing &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noma.org\/pins.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read My Pins <\/a>is a fascinating look at how one woman used a talisman to gird or celebrate her moments in the global sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Our houseguest lives in New York and is a frequent museum goer there, she commented that our sculpture garden is the best she has seen in the world (she is from Spain), and that the NOMA&#8217;s 18th and 19th century paintings are an excellent collection. Not bad for a town that can&#8217;t seem to support its theaters (Le Petit and now Chat Noir!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Museum of Art is holding its Centennial celebration in honor of its anniversary. The Ancestors of Congo Square exhibit is certainly worth a trip even though the way it was curated leaves something to be desired &#8211; namely dates (what were they thinking?) but the pieces are exquisite. The Madeline Albright pin collection is also worth seeing &#8211; Read My Pins is a fascinating look at how one woman used a talisman&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475,411,474],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-ancestors-of-congo-square","tag-noma","tag-read-my-pins"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}