{"id":19014,"date":"2022-05-03T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19014"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:36:53","slug":"the-problem-with-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-problem-with-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Ruffin explains why museums can be problematic in this terrific segment from her show. Pieces in museums were often stolen &#8212; possibly by governments rather than individuals. In particular, &#8220;90 to 95% of sub-Saharan cultural artifacts are housed outside of Africa.&#8221; Some museums are now giving things back to their rightful owners, but more should do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sDVRVYY4Gk4\">Art Museums: Stealing From POC for Centuries | The Amber Ruffin Show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Ruffin explains why museums can be problematic in this terrific segment from her show. Pieces in museums were often stolen &#8212; possibly by governments rather than individuals. In particular, &#8220;90 to 95% of sub-Saharan cultural artifacts are housed outside of Africa.&#8221; Some museums are now giving things back to their rightful owners, but more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-19014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19016,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19014\/revisions\/19016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}