{"id":10700,"date":"2021-06-30T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2021-06-30T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:03:28","slug":"spoilers-and-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"Spoilers and selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw an image of a beautiful altarpiece, Dutch painter Rogier van der Weyden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Columba_Altarpiece\">Santa Columba<\/a> triptych from 1455.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Columba_Altarpiece\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10703\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-1024x459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-1024x459.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-768x344.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was described as the biggest spoiler in history. Look at the center panel depicting the classic Nativity scene. Now look more closely at the center column:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10702\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-cfx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-cfx.jpg 537w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-cfx-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SantaColumba-cfx-24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>And then, I saw another image, a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortepan.hu\/hu\/photos\/?id=79337\">1958 photo<\/a> from P\u00e1l Berk\u00f3, courtesy of the Hungarian Fortepan photo archive, depicting the crowd greeting Khrushchov on account of his visit to Budapest. Greeting him with&#8230; smartphones in hand, taking selfies?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortepan.hu\/hu\/photos\/?id=79337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10701 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/fortepan_79337-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1121\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/fortepan_79337-small.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/fortepan_79337-small-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/fortepan_79337-small-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/fortepan_79337-small-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1121px) 100vw, 1121px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not exactly. Those are actually mirrors that many used to be able to see over the crowd. But the resemblance is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s true: The more we change, the more we remain the same.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10700' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw an image of a beautiful altarpiece, Dutch painter Rogier van der Weyden&#8217;s Santa Columba triptych from 1455. It was described as the biggest spoiler in history. Look at the center panel depicting the classic Nativity scene. Now look more closely at the center column: Oops. And then, I saw another image, a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10700' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25,59,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-humor","category-hungary","category-54-id","category-25-id","category-59-id","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}