{"id":2981,"date":"2025-10-21T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-140\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:47:11","slug":"reflection-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2025\/10\/21\/reflection-140\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before &#8220;Night at the Museum&#8221; I thought of museums as places that were meant to challenge visitors to expand their mindsets. No matter what content the museum houses&#8211;artistic, scientific, historical, or performative artifacts&#8211;they always aim to change the way we think, or to allow us to view things in an entirely different perspective: museums are the keys to intellectualism. Going through the fifth floor only reinforced my previous opinions as walking through the museum the piece, &#8220;Four Genders Were Born&#8221; stood out to me. It celebrates  antithesis to the gender binary that dictates western civilization, prompting viewers to analyze their reaction to the piece. If they&#8217;re confused, they have to ask, &#8220;what in my mindset is stopping me from fully understanding this piece?&#8221; If they&#8217;re uncomfortable, they have to ask, &#8220;what have I consumed that is creating this discomfort? What does that say about me? How should I work on this?&#8221; The piece supports my opinion on what museums are made to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before &#8220;Night at the Museum&#8221; I thought of museums as places that were meant to challenge visitors to expand their mindsets. No matter what content the museum houses&#8211;artistic, scientific, historical, or performative artifacts&#8211;they always aim to change the way we think, or to allow us to view things in an entirely different perspective: museums are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2982,"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-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}