{"id":1397,"date":"2010-08-31T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:23:03","slug":"the-grafitti-predates-the-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"The grafitti predates the artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Underpass Mural and Graffiti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10082908a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe mural in the underpass &#8211; showing people from the past &#8211; was repainted a couple of years ago and covered with an anti graffiti covering.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Underpass Mural and Graffiti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10082907a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThat does not stop graffiti but it does make grafitti a little easier to remove. <\/p>\n<p>A google search shows that this particular graffiti statement &#8220;<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Question Everything<\/span>&#8221; predates most of the rest of the mural. <\/p>\n<p>Euripides (Greek playwright, c. 480-406 BC) said <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">\u201cQuestion everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mural in the underpass &#8211; showing people from the past &#8211; was repainted a couple of years ago and covered with an anti graffiti covering. That does not stop graffiti but it does make grafitti a little easier to remove. A google search shows that this particular graffiti statement &#8220;Question Everything&#8221; predates most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-graffiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}