{"id":1256,"date":"2008-12-23T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2008-12-23T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:49:38","slug":"seen-any-icons-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Seen any icons recently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live at a time when the media seems to describe almost everything as iconic &#8211; from an old red telephone box to the footballer David Beckham. But, as I explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/12\/byzantium_3301453.html\">my previous posting<\/a> I have just been to an exhibition on Byzantium and here there were many real icons.<br \/>\nThe word icon comes from the Greek word <i>eikon<\/i> which simply means &#8216;a likeness, image or picture&#8217;. In various religions at different times, the creation and display of icons has been in or out of favour. The practice of displaying icons is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/iconography\">iconography<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/iconostatis\">iconostatis<\/a> is a screen bearing icons. Someone who favours icons is called an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/iconophile\">iconophile<\/a>, while somebody who opposes icons is described as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/iconoclast\">iconoclast<\/a> and the destruction of icons is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/iconoclasm-byzantine\">inconoclasm<\/a>..<br \/>\nI thought that you&#8217;d like to know &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live at a time when the media seems to describe almost everything as iconic &#8211; from an old red telephone box to the footballer David Beckham. But, as I explained in my previous posting I have just been to an exhibition on Byzantium and here there were many real icons. The word icon comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}