{"id":16219,"date":"2012-11-29T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T01:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2012-11-29T19:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T01:10:48","slug":"obama-painting-raises-eyebrows-nationwide-what-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/11\/obama-painting-raises-eyebrows-nationwide-what-do-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Painting Raises Eyebrows Nationwide, What Do You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16220\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/obama-painting-raises-eyebrows-nationwide-what-do-you-think\/pantng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16220 \" title=\"Pantng\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Pantng-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Pantng-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Pantng.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Truth&#8221; by Michael D&#8217;Antuono<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An artist&#8217;s shocking painting of President Barack Obama that has many talking at Bunker Hill Community College.<br \/>\nSome used words like disrespectful, blasphemous and shameful to describe the painting, but the man behind the image used just one word: Art.<br \/>\nThe painting shows President Obama in a Christ-like pose, as if nailed to a cross, with a crown of thorns on top of his head.<br \/>\nThe painted, titled &#8220;The Truth,&#8221; is on display at Bunker Hill Community College&#8217;s art gallery through December 15.<!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to the artist Michael D&#8217;Antuono, It was meant as a political piece, not really a religious piece at all.<br \/>\nD&#8217;Antuono said it is the Christian right which is fueling the debate. He makes no apologies for exercising his right to free speech.<br \/>\n&#8220;Jesus wasn&#8217;t the only one crucified and I&#8217;m pretty sure that if he came down now and looked around I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;d be too upset with me,&#8221; said D&#8217;Antuono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist&#8217;s shocking painting of President Barack Obama that has many talking at Bunker Hill Community College. Some used words like disrespectful, blasphemous and shameful to describe the painting, but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}