{"id":31107,"date":"2024-12-25T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kate-bush-shares-annual-christmas-message\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T03:03:09","slug":"kate-bush-shares-annual-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kate-bush-shares-annual-christmas-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bush shares annual Christmas message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-24\/G_katebush_122424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Dave Hogan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kate Bush<\/strong> has\u00a0posted\u00a0her annual Christmas message to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katebush.com\/news_article\/a-monet-christmas-eve-to-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, the &#8220;Running Up That Hill&#8221; artist\u00a0shares\u00a0that she went to see an exhibit of paintings by the French Impressionist <strong>Claude Monet<\/strong>, and draws a comparison between Monet&#8217;s paintings of smog-covered London and the current increasing use of artificial intelligence in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that us? Standing in awe at the dawn of AI, the symbol of modernity, as smog was for Monet at that time in the newly industrial London?&#8221; Bush writes. &#8220;Do we only see the twinkling light of the new invention, which so often catches the eye of our imagination\u2026 and what are those vague, dark sardonic shapes we can see in the background, behind the theatrical gauze?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s hard to make them out, but could they be our human pods, like those from the Matrix, being readied for us by eager, playful digits?&#8221; she continues. &#8220;Or maybe they are freshly painted bridges \u2013 robust, and lovingly built to carry us all into a much longed-for new age of healthy thinking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush concludes, &#8220;All will be revealed when the smog begins to clear.\u00a0Merry Christmas everyone. I hope it\u2019s a really joyful one for you all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hogan\/Getty Images Kate Bush has\u00a0posted\u00a0her annual Christmas message to her website. In the piece, the &#8220;Running Up That Hill&#8221; artist\u00a0shares\u00a0that she went to see an exhibit of paintings by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, and draws a comparison between Monet&#8217;s paintings of smog-covered London and the current increasing use<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kate-bush-shares-annual-christmas-message\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}