{"id":43240,"date":"2017-08-06T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43240"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:54:52","slug":"2224-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2224-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"(#22\/24): \u201cMasterpiece\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lady in black,<\/p>\n<p>A profile of superciliousness,<\/p>\n<p>Her manner haughty,<\/p>\n<p>Turning away in disdain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some may think Madame Gautreau merely demure,<\/p>\n<p>Her manner just an artifice,<\/p>\n<p>Instructed in this manner and artistic pose,<\/p>\n<p>By Sargent, that society painter of superficiality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, this scandalous work remains his tour de force,<\/p>\n<p>A masterpiece of portraiture.<\/p>\n<p>Time and critical appraisal have indeed<\/p>\n<p>Been kind to his fame. And her reputation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lady in black, A profile of superciliousness, Her manner haughty, Turning away in disdain. &nbsp; Some may think Madame Gautreau merely demure, Her manner just an artifice, Instructed in this manner and artistic pose, By Sargent, that society painter of superficiality. &nbsp; And yet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43243,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions\/43243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}