{"id":46,"date":"2005-10-16T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-09-20T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:02:13","slug":"tv-tower-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/16\/tv-tower-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Tower Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry for the long hiatus &#8212; our trip to Europe was great.\u00a0 This picture doesn&#8217;t really belong here since it&#8217;s from Prague, not Albuquerque.\u00a0 I&#8217;m including it because it represents a level of weirdness to which Abq can aspire.\u00a0 David Cerny is a Czech sculptor.\u00a0 He persuaded the local mayor to let him install his crawling-babies sculpture, Miminka, on the 200-meter tall communist-era TV Tower.\u00a0 There are a dozen bronze babies, each about a meter long, attached all over the tower.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the best piece of public art I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20051016220510_prague-babies.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20051016220510_prague-babies.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20051016220510_prague-babies-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the long hiatus &#8212; our trip to Europe was great.\u00a0 This picture doesn&#8217;t really belong here since it&#8217;s from Prague, not Albuquerque.\u00a0 I&#8217;m including it because it represents a level of weirdness to which Abq can aspire.\u00a0 David Cerny is a Czech sculptor.\u00a0 He persuaded the local mayor to let him install his <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/16\/tv-tower-babies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}