{"id":2416,"date":"2004-06-05T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T04:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/06\/05\/a-pure-form-of-america\/"},"modified":"2004-06-05T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T04:59:13","slug":"a-pure-form-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/06\/05\/a-pure-form-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pure Form of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3441'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/HAMcheese.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\"> <\/p>\n<p> Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro covers a bed with sliced ham<br \/>\n        at a gallery in New York Thursday, June 3, 2004. Cavallaro, 41, the son<br \/>\n        of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham he was using is &quot;a<br \/>\n        pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together.&quot; Despite<br \/>\n        his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro<br \/>\n        said he had rejected Prosciutto because &quot;It would have been pompous.&quot; (AP<br \/>\n      Photo\/Tina Fineberg)<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/image\/20040603\/HAM_ART.sff_NYR118_20040603183519.html\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro covers a bed with sliced ham at a gallery in New York Thursday, June 3, 2004. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham he was using is &quot;a pure form of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/06\/05\/a-pure-form-of-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}