{"id":192120,"date":"2009-05-09T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/09\/lend-me-your-ear\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:59:00","slug":"lend-me-your-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/09\/lend-me-your-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Lend Me Your Ear*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have a new theory on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/may\/04\/vincent-van-gogh-ear\">fate artist Vincent Van Gogh&#8217;s ear<\/a>, that rather than having cut it off himself, that it was as a result of a fight with fellow artist, and friend Paul Gaugin:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after a row with Gauguin in 1888. Bleeding heavily, Van Gogh then walked to a brothel and presented the severed ear to an astonished prostitute called Rachel before going home to sleep in a blood-drenched bed.<\/p>\n<p>But two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists&#8217; letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a definition of friendship of which I was previously unaware.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">You really didn&#8217;t think that I could pass up this pun.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have a new theory on the fate artist Vincent Van Gogh&#8217;s ear, that rather than having cut it off himself, that it was as a result of a fight with fellow artist, and friend Paul Gaugin: According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1167,1011,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-art","category-history","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}