{"id":333,"date":"2007-04-23T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T06:31:04","slug":"pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/04\/23\/pratt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It&#8217;s pure gold!  I will refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/ampersandduck.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/rant-du-jour.html\">Ampersand Duck&#8217;s full account<\/a>, since she does it so well. The artwork was done by <a href=\"http:\/\/byrdhq.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/canberra-gets-exciting-and-cold.html\">byrd<\/a>, and I was fond of it; it was relatively close to where I live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/byrdhq.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/canberra-gets-exciting-and-cold.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/22\/byrd.jpg\" title=\"Byrd\" alt=\"Byrd\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The irony is no doubt especially sweet for the Labor Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, following the <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.typepad.com\/spirits_dancing\/2005\/04\/street_art.html\">brew-ha-ha<\/a> when he was forced to fire one of his aides for doing some anti-Howard stencil work behind the Ainslie shops a couple of years ago:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/graffiti_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It&#8217;s pure gold! I will refer you to Ampersand Duck&#8217;s full account, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,19,7,224],"tags":[1384,691,1378,225,690,1358,692,1392],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canberra","category-fun","category-politics","category-street-art","tag-art","tag-byrd","tag-canberra","tag-graffiti","tag-irony","tag-politics","tag-pratt","tag-street-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-pratt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}