{"id":17,"date":"2005-06-08T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2005-06-08T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T03:28:00","slug":"the-knotted-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-knotted-45\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knotted 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/users\/pjoris\/foto\/31157\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/foto?key=282071c5ef5a337b8853c0fa07916f41&#038;size=400x300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1988, Luxembourg \u2014 the country of which I am still a citizen, even after these many green-carded years \u2014 offered the above sculpture by artist Fredrik Reutersw\u00e4rd to the UN in New York where you can see it today in the Visitor&#8217;s Plaza, facing First Avenue at 45th Street. Today, my friend John Maas \u2014 an excellent sculptor himself \u2014 alerted me to the fact that the Washington commentator Steven C Clemons used it on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/000710.html\">blog <\/a>to highlight a political cartoon by a young &#8220;aspiring political cartoonist,&#8221; Jonah Lobe, taking aim at John Bolton&#8217;s aims should he get to the UN. Can&#8217;t resist reprinting it here too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/users\/pjoris\/foto\/31159\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fotoflix.com\/foto?key=28209def1a022fa2f2fb6b2c389352bf&amp;size=400x300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, Luxembourg \u2014 the country of which I am still a citizen, even after these many green-carded years \u2014 offered the above sculpture by artist Fredrik Reutersw\u00e4rd to the UN in New York&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}