{"id":4310,"date":"2014-01-18T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2014-01-18T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:37:47","slug":"plight-of-the-polar-bears-by-mark-jenkins-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Plight of the Polar Bears&#8221; by Mark Jenkins (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xmarkjenkinsx.com\/images\/bear2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artist Mark Jenkins specializes in public street sculpture, and his work hovers somewhere between art and litter with a touch of playful satire. For this piece he created several &#8220;homeless&#8221; polar bears to be placed in various locations in Washington, DC. protesting the threats presented to their species due to climate change and habitat destruction.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarkjenkinsx.com\/essays.html\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Mark Jenkins specializes in public street sculpture, and his work hovers somewhere between art and litter with a touch of playful satire. For this piece he created several &#8220;homeless&#8221; polar bears to be placed in various locations in Washington, DC. protesting the threats presented to their species due to climate change and habitat destruction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-reference","category-reference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014spring2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}