{"id":216,"date":"2007-07-30T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-07-30T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:27:28","slug":"216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/216\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Gallery\u2019s GrantdTour in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 410px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/caravaggiosalom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/caravaggiosalom.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salom Receives the Head of Saint John The Baptist by Caravaggio presently on display on Soho's Brewer Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Grumpy Vegan and his mother in law had an enjoyable morning today walking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrandtour.org.uk\/\">National Gallery&#8217;s Grand Tour<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Forty-four masterpieces from the National Gallery&#8217;s collection are reproduced, framed and hung publicly on the street in London&#8217;s Covent Garden and Soho. It is, of course, preferable to see the originals in the gallery but there is something really quite exciting about seeing Caravaggio&#8217;s &#8220;Salom Receives the Head of Saint John The Baptist&#8221; in a Soho passageway with sex shops on either side of it. We couldn&#8217;t help but notice the busty blond standing outside her place of work smoking a cigarette. I think Caravaggio would have approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan and his mother in law had an enjoyable morning today walking the National Gallery&#8217;s Grand Tour. Forty-four masterpieces from the National Gallery&#8217;s collection are reproduced, framed and hung publicly on the street in London&#8217;s Covent Garden and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/216\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-glimpses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}