{"id":1243,"date":"2005-01-03T00:26:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T04:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2023-11-29T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:56:12","slug":"our-strange-flower-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/our-strange-flower-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Flower of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7371\" src=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-590x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-590x885.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-700x1050.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5.OurStrangeFlowerofDemocracy_NOMAretrospective-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\n2005<br \/>\nbamboo, river cane, burlap, coir, mahogany, steel, bottle caps<br \/>\n15 x 18 feet, diameter<\/p>\n<p>Stuck on an island (like a cargo cult) we would worship the cargo of democracy. We send it over as a dumb bomb (BLU-82), fueling fear and apprehension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1244\" title=\"Our Strange Flower of Democracy\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerTop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerTop.jpg 528w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerTop-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1246\" title=\"Our Strange Flower of Democracy\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerHandle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerHandle.jpg 499w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerHandle-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1245\" title=\"Our Strange Flower of Democracy\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerSpike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerSpike.jpg 598w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerSpike-590x740.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strangeFlowerSpike-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005 bamboo, river cane, burlap, coir, mahogany, steel, bottle caps 15 x 18 feet, diameter Stuck on an island (like a cargo cult) we would worship the cargo of democracy. We send it over as a dumb bomb (BLU-82), fueling fear and apprehension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,33,41,75,26,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-politics","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-themes","category-violence","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}