{"id":732,"date":"2014-05-23T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-05-26T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T08:15:32","slug":"st-pancras-station-part-2-the-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2014\/05\/st-pancras-station-part-2-the-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pancras Station, Part 2. The statue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Day&#8217;s sculpture is big (over 29 feet tall). It&#8217;s garish (its hugeness doesn&#8217;t help). But let&#8217;s talk about public art. Give anyone anywhere anytime a chance to criticize art, and they will. I was at the Tate Britain yesterday, and there was some absolute schlock&#8211;terrible, miserable, ugly, huge misshapen blobs of grossness. But it <em>is<\/em> art. It is expression. It is interpretation of dreams and life and experience.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t notice anybody meeting at The Meeting Place statue . . . just some curious families and a wandering American . . . but small-scale friezes surrounding the huge couple were quite interesting. Day was forced to take out the one frieze depicting a person falling onto the tracks in front of a train driven by the Grim Reaper. I get that. But the other scenes in waiting rooms, building the rails, etc., were glorious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/St_Pancras_Station_06.JPG\/450px-St_Pancras_Station_06.JPG\" alt=\"File:St Pancras Station 06.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" data-file-width=\"1944\" data-file-height=\"2592\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Meeting Place by Paul Day<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Day&#8217;s sculpture is big (over 29 feet tall). It&#8217;s garish (its hugeness doesn&#8217;t help). But let&#8217;s talk about public art. Give anyone anywhere anytime a chance to criticize art, and they will. I was at the Tate Britain yesterday, and there was some absolute schlock&#8211;terrible, miserable, ugly, huge misshapen blobs of grossness. But it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}