{"id":18107,"date":"2025-06-08T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18107"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:33:43","slug":"completely-unworkable-sculpture-experts-say-trumps-34-million-statue-garden-has-major-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18107","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely Unworkable\u2019: Sculpture Experts Say Trump\u2019s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;big problem with Donald Trump\u2019s signature plan to create a National Garden of American Heroes. And, for once, it has nothing to do with culture-war bickering about just who should be included in the national statue display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, artists, curators and critics who have reviewed the recent request for proposals have a more practical worry: America doesn\u2019t have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen on Trump\u2019s speedy timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do need a badass national statue garden, but Trump shouldn&#8217;t be in charge of it. It should be based on bipartisan agreed upon heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/31\/trump-sculpture-garden-american-heroes-china-00372297\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/31\/trump-sculpture-garden-american-heroes-china-00372297<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;big problem with Donald Trump\u2019s signature plan to create a National Garden of American Heroes. And, for once, it has nothing to do with culture-war bickering about just who should be included in the national statue display.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, artists, curators and critics who have reviewed the recent request for proposals have a more practical worry: America doesn\u2019t have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen on Trump\u2019s speedy timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We do need a badass national statue garden, but Trump shouldn&#8217;t be in charge of it. It should be based on bipartisan agreed upon heroes. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/31\/trump-sculpture-garden-american-heroes-china-00372297<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2220,221,1396,170],"class_list":["post-18107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-art","tag-donald-trump","tag-statue","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18108,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions\/18108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}