{"id":97755,"date":"2016-06-08T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/08\/theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:56:51","slug":"theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/08\/theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-97755 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/08\/theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2\/attachment\/97756\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o1_1280-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/08\/theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2\/attachment\/97757\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o89zn8rAxc1uocuz9o2_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theperksofbeingaperk.tumblr.com\/post\/145437289063\" target=\"_blank\">theperksofbeingaperk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026last<br \/>\nyear this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt\u2019s \u2018The<br \/>\nNight Watch\u2019 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Rijksmuseum<\/a> in Amsterdam<br \/>\n[went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as<br \/>\n\u201ca perfect metaphor for our age,\u201d \u201cthe end of civilization\u201d or \u201ca sad picture of<br \/>\nour society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/12103150\/Rembrandt-The-Night-Watch-The-real-story-behind-the-kids-on-phones-photo.html\" target=\"_blank\">It turns out<\/a> that the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Rijksmuseum<\/a> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/rijksmuseum\/id621307961?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">app<\/a> that, among other<br \/>\nthings, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display.<br \/>\nAs part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired<br \/>\nthe art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed<br \/>\nto complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the<br \/>\nmuseum\u2019s excellent smartphone app\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic thing is that this\u200a\u2014\u200athe truth\u200a\u2014\u200awill<br \/>\nnever go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization,<br \/>\nchildren using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults<br \/>\nwho are too quick to make assumptions?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@josepicardoshs\" title=\"Go to the profile of Jos\u00e9 Picardo\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Picardo<\/a>,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@josepicardoshs\/technology-and-the-death-of-civilisation-5e831b3f8b5#.tf613hq59\" target=\"_blank\">Medium<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@josepicardoshs\/technology-and-the-death-of-civilisation-5e831b3f8b5#.tf613hq59\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theperksofbeingaperk: \u201c\u2026last year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt\u2019s \u2018The Night Watch\u2019 in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as \u201ca perfect metaphor for our age,\u201d \u201cthe end of civilization\u201d or \u201ca sad picture of our society\u201d. \u2026It turns out that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/08\/theperksofbeingaperk-last-year-this-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97758,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97755\/revisions\/97758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}