{"id":670,"date":"2012-01-09T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=670"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:28:27","slug":"glimpse-of-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_2007\/glimpseofthegarden.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/garden.png' height=\"180\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_2007\/glimpseofthegarden.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Menken &#8211; Glimpse of the Garden (1957, 40MB, 5:04)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Menken\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Menken<\/a>, avant-garde filmmaker of the 1940s, 50s,<br \/>\nand 60s &#8211; in addition to being the inspiration for<br \/>\n<em>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em> and a Warhol<br \/>\n superstar &#8211; made inspirational work from a time we seem<br \/>\n to overlook too much today.  The garden here belongs<br \/>\n to one of her husband&#8217;s former male lovers, and while<br \/>\n Menken was often criticized for being quaint in her displays,<br \/>\n her style is an obviously feminine one that hides much<br \/>\n deeper meaning in ordinary but stunning visuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Menken &#8211; Glimpse of the Garden (1957, 40MB, 5:04) Marie Menken, avant-garde filmmaker of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s &#8211; in addition to being the inspiration for Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Warhol superstar &#8211; made inspirational &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,24,14,9,57,37,88,49,86,108,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-conceptual","category-documentary","category-experimental","category-film","category-flowers","category-historical","category-landscape","category-nature","category-place","category-seasonal","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}