{"id":7691,"date":"2026-10-25T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:57:48","slug":"robert-mapplethorpe-and-his-ilk-trash-by-any-other-name-will-always-be-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=7691","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mapplethorpe and his ilk. Trash by any other name will always be trash."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2026\/10\/robert-mapplethorpe-promoting-cultural-degeneracy-weaponizing-modern-art\/\"><strong>https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2026\/10\/robert-mapplethorpe-promoting-cultural-degeneracy-weaponizing-modern-art\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace;\">More often than not, trash has been unashamedly promoted as art: human excrement enclosed in a tin can <\/span><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace;\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace;\"> crucifixes suspended in urine <\/span><span style=\"font-family: DejaVu Sans Mono, monospace;\">or paintings that look like anything but works of art. The CIA did a good job of pushing the likes of Mapplethorpe and Jackson Pollock into prominence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html\">during the fake Cold War.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2026\/10\/robert-mapplethorpe-promoting-cultural-degeneracy-weaponizing-modern-art\/ More often than not, trash has been unashamedly promoted as art: human excrement enclosed in a tin can and crucifixes suspended in urine or paintings that look like anything but works of art. The CIA did a good job of pushing the likes of Mapplethorpe and Jackson Pollock into prominence during the fake Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}