{"id":88,"date":"2010-04-22T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmydesk.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-04-22T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:46:36","slug":"the-project-engineer-is-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/notmydesk\/life-stuff\/the-project-engineer-is-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project Engineer Is Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An artist named Marina Abramovic is performing in the Museum of Modern Art, in an installation called <a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/interactives\/exhibitions\/2010\/marinaabramovic\/\">The Artist is Present<\/a>, where she sits in a chair all day, from the museum&#8217;s opening to closing. Apparently, that&#8217;s all she does, sit in a chair, staring straight ahead, which is apparently art.<\/p>\n<p>Well, shit. I&#8217;ve been sitting in a chair at my job, staring blankly, from opening to closing, every weekday for years. I wouldn&#8217;t call it art, but I think it could be considered an art form since I haven&#8217;t been fired yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/themuseumofmodernart\/sets\/72157623741486824\/detail\/\">Some photos of the artist and museum visitors<\/a>, who are allowed to take turns sitting across from her. Interestingly, a number of them sitting there watching her sit there start crying.<\/p>\n<p>If you came and sat at my job and stared at me sitting and staring at my job, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;d start crying. I might, but you probably wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist named Marina Abramovic is performing in the Museum of Modern Art, in an installation called The Artist is Present, where she sits in a chair all day, from the museum&#8217;s opening to closing. Apparently, that&#8217;s all she does, sit in a chair, staring straight ahead, which is apparently art. Well, shit. I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}