{"id":1162,"date":"2024-10-15T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natm.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:08:56","slug":"1162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2024\/10\/15\/1162\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece, titled Vanity and Stool, by Kem Weber, stood out to me in the museum. My whole life I have been obsessed with the concept of mirrors, staring at myself in every mirror that I pass by. I always find something new to change about my appearance, whether it be the length of my hair, the amount of ear piercings I have, my weight, or cosmetic enhancements I plan to do in the future. Loving my self-image is something I have struggled with though out my entire life, but this piece, which highlights a positive force for growth and change, reminds me that no one is perfect. Individuals are always changing and evolving, and it is up to us to control how those changes impact our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece, titled Vanity and Stool, by Kem Weber, stood out to me in the museum. My whole life I have been obsessed with the concept of mirrors, staring at myself in every mirror that I pass by. I always find something new to change about my appearance, whether it be the length of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}