{"id":1810,"date":"2012-10-31T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2012-11-04T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:48:11","slug":"philippe-petit-an-interesting-take-on-ropes-and-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Philippe Petit: An interesting take on ropes and comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is\u00a0Philippe Petit, a french high-wire artist. He made a famous traversal of the twin towers on tightrope in 1974.\u00a0I think many parts of this\u00a0performance\u00a0apply to our current\u00a0assignment\u00a0on &#8216;comfort&#8217;. It also brings up a distinction between\u00a0performance\u00a0and\u00a0performance\u00a0art. How would you categorize Petit? An artist or a showman?<\/p>\n<p>There was also an academy\u00a0award\u00a0winning\u00a0documentary\u00a0on Petit, &#8220;Man on Wire&#8221;:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manonwire.com\/\">http:\/\/www.manonwire.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mow3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1813\" title=\"mow3\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mow3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mow3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mow3.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/philippe-petit-1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-small wp-image-1814\" title=\"philippe-petit-1974\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/philippe-petit-1974-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/philippe-petit-1974-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/philippe-petit-1974.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WTC-cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1815\" title=\"WTC-cross\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/WTC-cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is\u00a0Philippe Petit, a french high-wire artist. 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There was also an academy\u00a0award\u00a0winning\u00a0documentary\u00a0on Petit, &#8220;Man on Wire&#8221;:\u00a0http:\/\/www.manonwire.com\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2012fall2b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}