{"id":6350,"date":"2018-10-01T19:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:23:05","slug":"playing-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/playing-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/playing-statues\/musee-la-piscine-roubaix-march-2012-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6351\" src=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Musee-La-Piscine-Roubaix-March-2012-2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Musee-La-Piscine-Roubaix-March-2012-2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Musee-La-Piscine-Roubaix-March-2012-2-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Musee-La-Piscine-Roubaix-March-2012-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The idea of statues, inanimate figures, coming to life dates back at least to Pygmalion and his ideal ivory woman brought alive by Aphrodite.\u00a0 It has been the subject of many interpretations from <em>Pinocchio<\/em> to <em>Chuckie<\/em> and <em>The Winter&#8217;s Tale<\/em> and <em>Night at the Museum<\/em>.\u00a0 The childhood game of \u2018Statues\u2019 does the trick in reverse.\u00a0 Do these figures have an urge to be animated and push the mooching elderly couple into to water?\u00a0 Do they come alive at night and frolic sensuously in the pool?\u00a0 That might be worth watching.\u00a0 Henry Moore\u2019s figures would not have quite the same erotic charge.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Musee La Piscine, Roubaix, March 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of statues, inanimate figures, coming to life dates back at least to Pygmalion and his ideal ivory woman brought alive by Aphrodite.\u00a0 It has been the subject of many interpretations from Pinocchio to Chuckie and The Winter&#8217;s Tale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/playing-statues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-1Eq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}