{"id":1339,"date":"2010-09-04T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2010-09-04T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T06:28:07","slug":"shopping-with-the-last-tuesday-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/09\/04\/shopping-with-the-last-tuesday-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping with the Last Tuesday Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\/venuehire.html\">Viktor Wynd\u2019s Little Shop of Horrors<\/a>, London&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The shop is perhaps best seen as an attempt to recreate or reinterpret with twenty first century sensibilities a 17th century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kunstkamera\">Kunstkamera<\/a>, a collection of objects assembled on a whim on the basis of their aesthetic or historical appeal, there is no attempt at creating or explaining any metanarratives or educating anyone, merely a display of naturalia and artificialia designed to give pleasure to the creators of the museum, who hope that you too will enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/shop-horrors.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shop-horrors\" width=\"406\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1340\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Surprising numbers of our visitors wish to spend their time in trying to work out what is real and what is not.  A distinction that we do not see, nor understand.  Up until the Nineteenth century to call something original was to insult it, for if no one has done something before there\u2019s probably a good reason, and so many people have done so much since then, and much of it to be regretted, that to be original or to claim to have something that is original can only really be seen as unlikely and extremely pretentious.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Wynd\u2019s Little Shop of Horrors, London&#8230; &#8220;The shop is perhaps best seen as an attempt to recreate or reinterpret &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/09\/04\/shopping-with-the-last-tuesday-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}