{"id":517,"date":"2018-05-17T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/?p=517"},"modified":"2020-02-22T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:22:43","slug":"middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-519 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_59_21.Still003-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_59_21.Still003-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_59_21.Still003-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_59_21.Still003-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_59_21.Still003.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digital video, 5:25<\/p>\n<p><em>Middle<\/em> is an altered found footage\/reenactment video that explores three meanings of the middle finger. The video is broken into three sections:\u00c2\u00a0 a montage-supercut of children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s YouTube videos about fingers, a series of censored, crowd-sourced reenactments of the 90s teen rebellion music video for Smashing Pumpkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u01531979\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and a group of movie action sequences in which characters hang from ledges by their middle fingers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_00_17_12.Still001-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_00_17_12.Still001-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_00_17_12.Still001-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_00_17_12.Still001-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_00_17_12.Still001.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_41_28.Still002-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_41_28.Still002-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_41_28.Still002-1-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_41_28.Still002-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_01_41_28.Still002-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_03_23_29.Still004-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_03_23_29.Still004-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_03_23_29.Still004-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_03_23_29.Still004-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_03_23_29.Still004.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_04_31_22.Still005-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_04_31_22.Still005-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_04_31_22.Still005-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_04_31_22.Still005-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Middle.00_04_31_22.Still005.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital video, 5:25 Middle is an altered found footage\/reenactment video that explores three meanings of the middle finger. The video is broken into three sections:\u00c2\u00a0&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-and-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmurray.com\/murray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}