{"id":781,"date":"2010-09-24T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:55:14","slug":"our-lady-in-broken-glass-st-johns-university-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/our-lady-in-broken-glass-st-johns-university-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Lady&#8221; in Broken Glass, St. John&#8217;s University, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"_MG_3205.jpg by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/5020950177\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4152\/5020950177_8b429286ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_3205.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of rather kitschy pieces of art amongst the modernist pieces at St. John&#8217;s, and this sculpture, entitled &#8220;Our Lady&#8221; and constructed by Oblate Catherine Smith in 1960, really stood out for me. I am not even sure what the religious message is&#8211;&#8220;Mary will cut you, so stay away!&#8221;? Broken glass of the kind you put atop a wall to cut the hands of thieves seems like an inappropriate medium for showing Marian devotion.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"_MG_3208.jpg by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/5021556926\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/5021556926_a5d23de1e2_z.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_3208.jpg\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A close-up of the broken glass making up the sculpture of &#8220;Our Lady&#8221; by Oblate Catherine Smith, showing the sharp edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of rather kitschy pieces of art amongst the modernist pieces at St. John&#8217;s, and this sculpture, entitled &#8220;Our Lady&#8221; and constructed by Oblate Catherine Smith in 1960, really stood out for me. I am not even sure what the religious message is&#8211;&#8220;Mary will cut you, so stay away!&#8221;? Broken glass of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/our-lady-in-broken-glass-st-johns-university-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Our Lady&#8221; in Broken Glass, St. John&#8217;s University, 2010&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[147,538,563,627,645,796,836,905,938,943],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-broken-glass","tag-mary","tag-minnesota","tag-oblate-catherine-smith","tag-our-lady","tag-sculpture","tag-st-johns-university","tag-the-virgin-mary","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}