{"id":21687,"date":"2013-07-30T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=21687"},"modified":"2013-07-30T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:21:56","slug":"urinating-sculpture-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/07\/30\/urinating-sculpture-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;Bad, Bad Boy&#8221; Bad, Bad Art? (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Swedes ain&#8217;t sweet on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/49254\/20130725\/\">sculpture:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each summer the city of \u00d6rebro becomes a canvas for international artists to present their work as part of the \u00d6rebro Open Art exhibition. This year, one particular sculpture has caused quite a stir since its installation on the banks of the River Svart\u00e5n. <\/p>\n<p>The provocative piece is an eight-metre high sculpture of a nude male figure urinating into the river&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bad Bad Boy&#8221; by Finnish artist Tommi Toija stands towering over the river bank with his disproportionate body: lanky and topped with an over-sized, round, bald head. His skin, made from clay, is a blistering sunburnt-pink, and his wide-eyed facial expression is as hard to decipher as the art itself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is &#8220;Bad, Bad Boy&#8221; Bad, Bad Art? (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A sculpture&#8217;s creating a stir&#8212;<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Bad, Bad Boy&#8221; pissing monsieur:<br \/>\nAs it pees in the river,<br \/>\nThe folks are aquiver.<br \/>\nIs it art? Connoisseurs may demur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Swedes ain&#8217;t sweet on this sculpture: Each summer the city of \u00d6rebro becomes a canvas for international artists to present their work as part of the \u00d6rebro Open Art exhibition. This year, one particular sculpture has caused quite a stir since its installation on the banks of the River Svart\u00e5n. The provocative piece is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,42],"tags":[1487,549,3761,3763,3765,1491,999,3764],"class_list":["post-21687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-humor-verse","category-limericks","tag-art-humor","tag-art-limerick","tag-orebro","tag-bad-bad-boy","tag-river-svartan","tag-sculpture","tag-sweden","tag-tommi-toija"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21694,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21687\/revisions\/21694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}