{"id":240,"date":"2017-03-17T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:31:54","slug":"m-f-a-alum-anthony-moll-reviews-george-w-bushs-portraits-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/2017\/03\/17\/m-f-a-alum-anthony-moll-reviews-george-w-bushs-portraits-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"M.F.A. alum Anthony Moll reviews George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Portraits of Courage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/03\/Anthony-Moll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-241 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/03\/Anthony-Moll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>In a recent piece for \u2018Noise,\u2019 an arts blog from the <em>City Paper<\/em>, UB alum and adjunct writing instructor <strong>Anthony Moll<\/strong>, M.F.A. \u201914, offers his take on <em>Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief&#8217;s Tribute to America&#8217;s Warriors<\/em>, the new book by former President George W. Bush. The book is a collection of portraits of U.S. military veterans who have served since 9\/11 painted by Bush himself, and includes short essays about each of the soldiers he depicted.<\/p>\n<p>While the book has been billed as Bush\u2019s tribute to veterans, Moll\u2014who served eight years in the U.S. Army\u2014says that the book \u201cseems to be less about the paintings, and more about a man&#8217;s attempt to amend his place in our memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypaper.com\/blogs\/noise\/bcpnews-portrait-of-the-war-president-as-an-artist-20170315-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portrait of the war president as an artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent piece for \u2018Noise,\u2019 an arts blog from the City Paper, UB alum and adjunct writing instructor Anthony Moll, M.F.A. \u201914, offers his take on Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief&#8217;s Tribute to America&#8217;s Warriors, the new book by former President George W. Bush. The book is a collection of portraits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}