{"id":4024,"date":"2012-01-12T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:39:24","slug":"a-makeover-it-needs-to-be-razed-and-salted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/01\/a-makeover-it-needs-to-be-razed-and-salted.html","title":{"rendered":"A makeover. It needs to be razed and salted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 Remember this thing, the monster of Stazione Termini in Rome? Well, it\u2019s getting a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/entertainment\/Hideous%20Pope%20John%20Paul%20statue%20getting%20makeover\/5978055\/story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">makeover<\/a>\u2018. I know it\u2019s just a makeover but at least it\u2019s a small recognition that the thing is ugly and looks more like Mussolini than Bl. John Paul II. What ever happened to making art look like stuff, recognizable stuff, not all this lazy abstract conceptual garbage? 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