{"id":82032,"date":"2022-05-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82032"},"modified":"2022-05-12T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:12:27","slug":"i-philistine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82032","title":{"rendered":"I, Philistine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the olden days, almost nobody could read the Bible but they could<br>listen to the preacher draw lessons from Bible stories. Stained glass<br>church windows helped illiterate people remember the lessons from the<br>stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Modern churches have stained glass windows like this one from a<br>magazine. The designer says the colors represent liturgical seasons in<br>the Christian calendar (Christmas is red, Lent is purple, Advent is<br>green, God is the bright white center of all, etc.). Okay, if you say so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1024x731.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82033\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1024x731.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-300x214.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-768x548.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1536x1097.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-420x300.png 420w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1.png 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>I don&#8217;t like abstract art (I see no meaning in a mess).&nbsp; I don&#8217;t like<br>jazz music &#8211; I can never find &#8220;the line&#8221; to follow the melody.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t<br>like blank verse poetry:&nbsp; if it doesn&#8217;t rhyme, don&#8217;t waste my time.<br><br>Wikipedia says: Philistines favor forms of art that have a cheap and<br>easy appeal.&nbsp; Yep, that&#8217;s me and pretty much everybody in Christendom up<br>until about 100 years ago, when &#8216;artists&#8217; stopped making art to be<br>enjoyed by adults and started making &#8216;art&#8217; for their own<br>self-indulgence.&nbsp;&nbsp; And they call US pig-ignorant savages?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think<br>so.&nbsp; Time for a new renaissance in the art world.<br><br>Joe Doakes (but you can call me Phil)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, almost nobody could read the Bible but they couldlisten to the preacher draw lessons from Bible stories. Stained glasschurch windows helped illiterate people remember the lessons from thestories. Modern churches have stained glass windows like this one from amagazine. The designer says the colors represent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82041,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82032\/revisions\/82041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}