{"id":8358,"date":"2023-07-22T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2023-07-22T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T09:35:25","slug":"vandalism-or-public-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/07\/22\/vandalism-or-public-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism or Public Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous 'rock artist', known it seems as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cv215g9xen4o\">The Borrowdale Banksy<\/a>, has created a new slate structure in the Lake District. \u00a0The Times noted that previous sculptures have been knocked down by what it terms \"vandals\".<\/p>\n<p>Hardly a Banksy, I'd have thought given the total absence of any social comment or satirical edge. \u00a0Is the mere rearrangement of lumps of rock into a new shape really art? \u00a0Surely not otherwise my garden is a gallery and I should be applying for a Council grant.<\/p>\n<p>And why \"vandal\"? \u00a0Perhaps \"public spirited, landscape sensitive, citizen\" might be more apt, given the visual intrusion the newly-arranged rock constitutes. \u00a0Leave the slate alone. \u00a0It's what cairns are for.<\/p>\n<p>What would Wordsworth have thought ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous 'rock artist', known it seems as The Borrowdale Banksy, has created a new slate structure in the Lake District. \u00a0The Times noted that previous sculptures have been knocked down by what it terms \"vandals\". Hardly a Banksy, I'd...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}