{"id":2675,"date":"2025-10-21T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-62\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:50:17","slug":"reflection-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to believe that the existence of museums was superficial and could not understand the intellectual depth required to properly understand and enjoy these facilities. Despite not getting an epiphany visiting Brooklyn museum, my first museum visit in 4 years,  I now more clearly see the merits of the museum. Each artwork hides a beautiful, rich story behind its vibrant or gothic exterior. Each story is completely different from its neighbor and even the artworks that display the same meaning have their individual nuances. I would highly recommend other Macaulay students to visit museums as the artistic beauty and complexity will enrich their appreciation and understanding of both complex intellectual concepts and themes of the world around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to believe that the existence of museums was superficial and could not understand the intellectual depth required to properly understand and enjoy these facilities. Despite not getting an epiphany visiting Brooklyn museum, my first museum visit in 4 years, I now more clearly see the merits of the museum. Each artwork hides a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}