{"id":2855,"date":"2011-04-01T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/the-600000-gurgling-toad\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:00:42","slug":"the-600000-gurgling-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/01\/the-600000-gurgling-toad\/","title":{"rendered":"The $600,000 Gurgling Toad"},"content":{"rendered":"

from U.S. News & World Report<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Pentagon Art: $600,000 Gurgling Toad Sculpture<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0PAUL BEDARD<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting\u00a0Defense\u00a0<\/a>Department employees who plan to start working at the $700 million Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. this fall. That is unless a new controversy over the price tag of the public\u00a0art<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/font>doesn’t torpedo the idea.<\/p>\n

[See a gallery of monuments and art around Washington, D.C.]<\/a><\/p>\n

Decried as wasteful spending that will be seen by just a couple thousand of daily workers who arrive on bus\u00a0shuttles<\/span><\/font><\/a>, foes have tried to delay the decision, expected tomorrow, April 1. But in an E-mail, an Army Corps of Engineers official said that the decision can’t be held up because it would impact completion of the huge project.<\/p>\n

[David]\u00a0 says he’s not opposed to art, just high-priced works that won’t be seen by many. He estimates that only 2,500 will see the artwork every day as they use the bus transfer station at the Mark Center. “Who the heck is going to see it,” he asked. “To spend six hundred grand to amuse the same people every day is nuts.”<\/p>\n

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from U.S. News & World Report Pentagon Art: $600,000 Gurgling Toad Sculpture By\u00a0PAUL BEDARD A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting\u00a0Defense\u00a0Department employees who plan to start working at the $700 million Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. this fall. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}