{"id":25810,"date":"2017-04-12T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25810"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:16:06","slug":"charging-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25810","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Charging Bull\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/04\/12\/charging-bull-sculptor-says-fearless-girl-distorts-his-art-hes-fighting-back\">With hopes of<\/a> dispensing the \u201cperfect antidote\u201d to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to capture the resilience of the American people. <\/p>\n<p>Under the cover of night and without a permit, he installed his massive \u201cCharging Bull\u201d directly before the New York Stock Exchange, a gift New Yorkers loved but New York City initially hated. Authorities removed it, but later reinstalled it under pressure at a small public park in the financial district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One would assume a rogue artist like Di Modica would be cool with the \"Fearless Girl\" statue that was recently put in front of his big-ass bull.<\/p>\n<p>One would be wrong!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He forcefully advocated against a global campaign to make \u201cFearless Girl\u201d a permanent fixture, but fans persevered, persuading New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to extend the statue\u2019s permit through April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of his bull, Di Modica won\u2019t back down.<\/p>\n<p>The artist will hold a news conference Wednesday with attorney Norman Siegel, the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, to explain his plans to challenge the city officials who let \u201cFearless Girl\u201d happen without asking his permission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hopes of dispensing the \u201cperfect antidote\u201d to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to capture the resilience of the American people. Under the cover of night and without a permit, he installed his massive \u201cCharging Bull\u201d directly before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25812,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions\/25812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}