{"id":242,"date":"2008-02-01T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:37","slug":"arrangement-in-gray-and-black-melbys-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/arrangement-in-gray-and-black-melbys-mother.html","title":{"rendered":"Arrangement in Gray and Black: Melby&#8217;s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Mrs-melbys-mother-at-bowling-alley.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/7\/7b\/Mrs-melbys-mother-at-bowling-alley.jpg\/800px-Mrs-melbys-mother-at-bowling-alley.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Whistler&#8217;s Mother <\/span>(otherwise known as <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcgallery.com\/W\/whistler\/whistler37.html\">Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1<\/a>) is an iconic image in our culture, recalling a Victorian silence and respectability.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Mrs-melbys-mother-at-bowling-alley.jpg\">Mrs. Melby&#8217;s Mother<\/a>, above, spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Minnesota_Ladies_Bowling%2C_1960\">Halloween 1960 at a bowling alley<\/a>.  My, how times change is a little less than a century!  Not quite as much as you may think, though &#8212; the style of dress is similarly modest,  although Mrs. Melby has gone stocking-free and is showing a little ankle.  Her chair is similarly spartan, although anyone who attended a high school built earlier than 1960 is probably intimately familiar with such folding seats; many a small finger has been bit by those steel hinges while screwing around during an oh-so-important school assembly in the auditorium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-3738693604135176044?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistler&#8217;s Mother (otherwise known as Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1) is an iconic image in our culture, recalling a Victorian silence and respectability. Mrs. Melby&#8217;s Mother, above, spent Halloween 1960 at a bowling alley. My, how times change is a little less than a century! Not quite as much as you may think, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[169,15,250,282,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}