{"id":2908,"date":"2009-06-05T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/the-gates-of-hell\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T00:47:53","slug":"the-gates-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/the-gates-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gates of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Rodin&#8217;s Gates of Hell at a garden museum at Stanford. I went there last Friday before going to SubZero. You can see The Thinker up top. Yes THAT &#8220;The Thinker&#8221;.  He was originally designed to sit atop this piece so that be could ponder the sorry souls that were going through the gates.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is astounding. I would say &#8220;simply Astounding&#8221; but there is nothing simple about it.  <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s Adam and Eve standing beside the gates. Interestingly, The cowering Adam is the piece in this garden of naked people with the most fully formed junk. All the others have &#8220;tastefully&#8221; partially formed naughty bits. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/p-1600-1200-fa3f2029-a5c2-4dd9-a493-dddd434ed349.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/p-1600-1200-fa3f2029-a5c2-4dd9-a493-dddd434ed349.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/p-1600-1200-629e55c8-b7a0-4d1a-b97d-78a86ae05dbc.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/p-1600-1200-629e55c8-b7a0-4d1a-b97d-78a86ae05dbc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Rodin&#8217;s Gates of Hell at a garden museum at Stanford. I went there last Friday before going to SubZero. You can see The Thinker up top. Yes THAT &#8220;The Thinker&#8221;. He was originally designed to sit atop this piece so that be could ponder the sorry souls that were going through the gates. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}