{"id":6790,"date":"2021-07-25T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=6790"},"modified":"2021-07-25T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:30:58","slug":"maria-mijares-discernment-war-of-the-worlds-acrylic-on-board-4500-00","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=maria-mijares-discernment-war-of-the-worlds-acrylic-on-board-4500-00","title":{"rendered":"Maria Mijares \u201cDiscernment..War of the Worlds\u201d acrylic on board, $4,500.00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDISCERNMENT: War of the Worlds\u201d<b> <\/b>acrylic on board, 23\u201dH x 39\u201dW \u00a92018-21, $4500.00<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u201cDISCERNMENT,\u201d addresses the question of what we are to believe and our ability to distinguish truth from deception. We consider where reality and fiction begin, end, or continue off the page\u2014from what appears black &amp; white, through shadows, to enlightenment. Turning the page\u2014a concrete picture of Trenton\u2019s peaceful skyline at sundown heralds a glowing future of potential.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Orson Welles\u2019 WAR OF THE WORLDS cited Grover Mills in Mercer County as the place of Martians landing. The radio broadcast on October 31, 1938, posed a double deception\u2014that aliens had landed and that people had believed it. Failing newspapers played up the fictional terror to boost the credibility of print versus the dangers of the \u2018new\u2019 media, radio. We reckon with the power of the media today. Do we believe what we hear, from whom, and how do we discern manipulation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDISCERNMENT: War of the Worlds\u201d acrylic on board, 23\u201dH x 39\u201dW \u00a92018-21, $4500.00 \u201cDISCERNMENT,\u201d addresses the question of what we are to believe and our ability to distinguish truth from deception. We consider where reality and fiction begin, end, or continue off the page\u2014from what appears black &amp; white, through shadows, to enlightenment. Turning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[71],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6790","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-aliens-bigfoot-and-the-edge-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/6790\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_category&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_tag&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}