{"id":973,"date":"2007-08-05T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2024-05-04T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T21:36:36","slug":"art-on-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Art on the highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Maine Turnpike Authority decided to install works of art by William Wegman in several rest areas. When I was driving north today, I stopped at the Kennebunk rest area to check out one of those artworks. (0:42)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM.png 960w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-04-at-5.07.34-PM-624x456.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Press reports on the murals: The <\/em>Portland Press-Herald<em> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/story.php?id=116351&amp;ac=PHfea\">some turnpike authorities would have preferred &#8220;a picture of a lighthouse or Mount Katahadin&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; whereas the <\/em>Bangor Daily News<em> offers a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangornews.com\/news\/t\/lifestyle.aspx?articleid=151008&amp;zoneid=14\">a maintenance worker who likes the mural<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: video host blip.tv is defunct, so this video no longer exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Turnpike Authority decided to install works of art by William Wegman in several rest areas. When I was driving north today, I stopped at the Kennebunk rest area to check out one of those artworks. (0:42) Press reports on the murals: The Portland Press-Herald reports that some turnpike authorities would have preferred &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-sauntering","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8455,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/8455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}