{"id":985,"date":"2010-02-09T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belcheresque.wordpress.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2016-06-08T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:25:37","slug":"time-to-close-down-the-arts-council-axis-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Time to close down The Arts Council? AXIS RANT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the AXIS RANT page<br \/>\nFeel free to bark back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1120\" title=\"hoops\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/hoops-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"hoops\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nOur new Ranter-in-Residence for February, Shaun Belcher, starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking &#8216;Has Arts Council England (ACE) failed? Do we really need it anyway?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun asks if the lottery years have set ACE up for a fall as we move into tighter financial times and political pressures are heightening.<\/p>\n<p>Read original HERE:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.axisweb.org\/archive\/news-and-views\/the-rant\/rant-30\/\">http:\/\/www.axisweb.org\/archive\/news-and-views\/the-rant\/rant-30\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back&#8230; Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, Shaun Belcher, starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking &#8216;Has Arts Council England (ACE) failed? Do we really need it anyway?&#8217;. Shaun asks if the lottery years have set ACE up for a fall as we move into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,5,6,79,11,109,16,87,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-art","category-art-criticism","category-arts-council-england","category-blogging","category-cartoons","category-economic-crisis-and-art","category-journal","category-politics","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/criticism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}