{"id":96,"date":"2009-01-04T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","slug":"cruising-san-mateo-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/04\/cruising-san-mateo-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising San Mateo I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new year, a new camera, a new abq-strange post.\u00a0 This sculpture&#8217;s real name is &#8220;Cruising San Mateo I&#8221; but everybody in Albuquerque knows it as the Chevy On A Stick.\u00a0 It was quite controversial when it was installed in the early 1990s.\u00a0 Art has always been in the eye of the beholder and all the old arguments against funding public art came out on this one (and still surface every now and then).\u00a0 But now that the tiled &#8217;54 Chevy has been there for almost 20 years, most people are quite used to it, and will at least concede that it makes the area unique.\u00a0 For me, I love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20090104152030_chevyonastick.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20090104152030_chevyonastick.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20090104152030_chevyonastick-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year, a new camera, a new abq-strange post.\u00a0 This sculpture&#8217;s real name is &#8220;Cruising San Mateo I&#8221; but everybody in Albuquerque knows it as the Chevy On A Stick.\u00a0 It was quite controversial when it was installed in the early 1990s.\u00a0 Art has always been in the eye of the beholder and all <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/04\/cruising-san-mateo-i\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","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\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}