{"id":6708,"date":"2019-10-03T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2019-10-03T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T17:46:44","slug":"homage-to-bruegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"HOMAGE TO BRUEGEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During a recent stopover in Naples, I had the opportunity to revisit the Capodimonte Museum on a pilgrimage of sorts to reconnect with Pieter Bruegel after a far too long interlude of several decades. On the very first day of my arrival I walked through hot, steamy heat and confusing streets up to the Capodimonte park to experience once again the genius that was Bruegel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I recall reading Hemingway after my first visit and he said that to see one of Pieter Bruegel&#8217;s works was like taking an unexpected fist to the stomach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What can I say? The earth moved! It really did. How I miss Ernest!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6709\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><strong>BLIND LEADING THE BLIND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6710\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"927\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-2.jpg 927w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-2-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bruegel-2-768x828.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><strong>THE MISANTHROPE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent stopover in Naples, I had the opportunity to revisit the Capodimonte Museum on a pilgrimage of sorts to reconnect with Pieter Bruegel after a far too long interlude of several decades. On the very first day of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}