{"id":2157,"date":"2025-11-19T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:24:53","slug":"thought-for-the-day-wednesday-november-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/thought-for-the-day-wednesday-november-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day &#8211; Wednesday, November 19, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thought for the Day<\/span><br \/>\nWednesday, November 19, 2025<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The big headline today is \u201cLeonard Lauder\u2019s Klimt fetches $236.4 million at Sotheby\u2019s.\u201d Gustav Klimt\u2019s portrait of Elizabeth Lauder (1912-1914) is the most ever paid for modern art at auction. This headline continues a trend that makes the most important thing about art the price it sells for. This monetization of art eclipses the meaning of art or other values of art and reflects how money has become the primary value in almost all areas of culture. There is no escaping it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought for the Day Wednesday, November 19, 2025 The big headline today is \u201cLeonard Lauder\u2019s Klimt fetches $236.4 million at Sotheby\u2019s.\u201d Gustav Klimt\u2019s portrait of Elizabeth Lauder (1912-1914) is the most ever paid for modern art at auction. This headline continues a trend that makes the most important thing about art the price it sells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}