{"id":210,"date":"2016-02-28T01:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2017-05-26T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:06:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Philosophy@The Virtual Art Museum was created by Professor Tom Wartenberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-265 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/cm042915Wartenberg20-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"cm042915Wartenberg20\" width=\"454\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/cm042915Wartenberg20-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/cm042915Wartenberg20-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/cm042915Wartenberg20-1024x836.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Tom has been teaching philosophy to pre-college students since 1999 and his work in this field has received international recognition.\u00a0 As of June 2016, he is serving as President of <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"http:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\" target=\"_blank\">PLATO<\/a> (the US pre-college philosophy organization).\u00a0 He is the author and editor of a number of books in this field, including <em>Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children\u2019s Literature<\/em>, now in its second edition, and <em>A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries<\/em>. \u00a0He also publishes in the fields of philosophy of film and aesthetics.\u00a0 He recently curated an art exhibition <a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/artmuseum\/blog\/thinking-through-images?bc=node\/415\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Bochner: Illustrating Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.\u00a0 You can find out more about him here:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333\" href=\"http:\/\/mtholyoke.edu\/~twartenb\">Tom Wartenberg profile<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy@The Virtual Art Museum was created by Professor Tom Wartenberg. Tom has been teaching philosophy to pre-college students since 1999 and his work in this field has received international recognition.\u00a0 As of June 2016, he is serving as President of PLATO (the US pre-college philosophy organization).\u00a0 He is the author and editor of a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}