{"id":739795,"date":"2013-02-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=f6a8dac5f2b91512fdae050d934ca0db"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:00:00","slug":"catching-up-with-the-curator-watch-meeting-dec-31st-1862-waiting-for-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739795","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with the Curator: Watch Meeting&#8211;Dec. 31st 1862&#8211;Waiting for the Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/01\/31\/national-african-american-history-month-2013\">African American History Month<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/12\/31\/presidential-proclamation-150th-anniversary-emancipation-proclamation\/\">150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation<\/a>, we talked with White House Curator Bill Allman about a painting called Watch Meeting--Dec. 31st 1862--Waiting for the Hour that hangs near the Oval Office in the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The painting, completed in 1863 by William Carlton, shows a group of African American men, women and children waiting for the clock to strike midnight -- the hour the Emancipation Proclamation would go into effect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Check it out, and learn why President Obama chose this painting to hang in the West Wing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/catching-curator-watch-meeting-dec-31st-1862-waiting-hour\" >read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark African American History Month, as well as the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we talked with White House Curator Bill Allman about a painting called Watch Meeting&#8211;Dec. 31st 1862&#8211;Waiting for the Hour that hangs near the Oval Office in the West Wing. The painting, completed in 1863 by William Carlton, shows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36sb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}