{"id":3725,"date":"2014-06-20T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2014-06-20T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:02:49","slug":"vulture-article-zombies-on-the-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/vulture-article-zombies-on-the-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulture article: Zombies on the Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across&nbsp;an amusing article in the infrequently read (for me) online mag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vulture<\/a> called&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/06\/why-new-abstract-paintings-look-the-same.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zombies on the Walls<\/a>. It decries the flood of copy-cat abstraction drowning the market, calling the the trend <span style=\"color: #222222;\"><em>M.F.A. Abstraction<\/em> among other less polite things.&nbsp;<\/span>Give it a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across&nbsp;an amusing article in the infrequently read (for me) online mag Vulture called&nbsp;Zombies on the Walls. It decries the flood of copy-cat abstraction drowning the market, calling the the trend M.F.A. Abstraction among other less polite things.&nbsp;Give it a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,76,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-artists","category-galleries","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2892,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/poem-why-do-i-remember-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":3725,"position":0},"title":"Poem: Why do I remember this?","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 12, 2014","format":"image","excerpt":"Why do I remember? 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