{"id":438,"date":"2009-01-22T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/obamiconography\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:20:00","slug":"obamiconography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/obamiconography\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamiconography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/64b0fe76-11ad-400e-b74b-0f960d9671c7-733901.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 219px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/64b0fe76-11ad-400e-b74b-0f960d9671c7-733895.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Ever since his primary campaign, President Obama has generated a perhaps unsurpassed iconography.  <a href=\"http:\/\/designforobama.org\/\">Designers for Obama.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djsforobama.com\/\">DJs for Obama<\/a>.  We need not mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/products?q=obama&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wf\">T- shirt makers for Obama.<\/a>  (Brian Mann asks, &#8220;what&#8217;s next?  Obama action figures in Happy Meals?&#8221;)  Stephen Colbert vamped on all this in the funniest way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/21\/stephen-colbert-cries-ove_n_159705.html\">Tuesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the ultimate icon of this President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/07\/obamas-hope-portrait-head_n_156046.html\">will remain<\/a> the Shepard Fairey image.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99466584\">Terry Gross talked to him about it<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>I just ran into a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillynews.com\/inquirer\/sceneonroad\/2009\/01\/found_again_the_poster_source.html\">very cool blog post<\/a> tracking down the origin of the photo that inspired the image.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarnavigator.net\/films_movies_actors\/actors_films_images\/george_clooney_swimming_mid_air_jump.jpg\">guess who may have inspired<\/a> that Presidential, visionary, future-looking gaze?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since his primary campaign, President Obama has generated a perhaps unsurpassed iconography. Designers for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}