{"id":1542,"date":"2016-01-28T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:21:16","slug":"america-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"America, America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1543\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20-674x1024.jpg 674w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20-768x1167.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Olenick_20.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;America, America.&#8221; 2017. Embroidered and sewn fabric with twisted wire, seed beads.<br \/>Song to the tune of &#8220;America the Beautiful,&#8221; written by Iviva Olenick about the Pinckney family South Carolina plantations, indigo as a cash crop and heralded feminist, Eliza Lucas Pinckney.<br \/>&#8220;Oh beautiful, my plantations<br \/>my fields of indigo.<br \/>The seeds that failed now flourish here<br \/>success is sure to grow.<br \/>America, America, Father&#8217;s dreams are coming true<br \/>a cash crop fueled by slave labor<br \/>keep Europe dyed in blue.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-753x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-753x1024.jpg 753w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-768x1044.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-1129x1536.jpg 1129w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-1506x2048.jpg 1506w, http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/08_Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full work with beaded &#8220;raft&#8221; underneath. In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum Library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full work with beaded &#8220;raft&#8221; underneath. In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-absence-vs-presence-family-and-u-s-memory-legend-myth-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ivivaolenick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}