{"id":404,"date":"2008-07-14T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/barack-and-me\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:16:23","slug":"barack-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/barack-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/14\/MNID11P4V2.DTL&#038;tsp=1\">controversy over the New Yorker Obama<\/a> cover in a state of bemused disappointment. The kerfuffle would seem to indicate that an awful lot of people in this country have no sense of humor, or at least don&#8217;t understand the notion of satire. I&#8217;m a huge admirer of Barry Blitt, the artist who did the cover&#8211;and I&#8217;d count this cover among his best pieces of work ever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad, at least, that New Yorker editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/13\/david-remnick-on-emnew-yo_n_112456.html\">David Remnick isn&#8217;t backing down or apologizing to anyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did I mention that Barry Blitt has drawn me? Granted, it was as a weirdo marrying a laptop, not a terrorist&#8211;but I was thrilled, not offended&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/misc\/HarryBlitt.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following all the controversy over the New Yorker Obama cover in a state of bemused disappointment. The kerfuffle would seem to indicate that an awful lot of people in this country have no sense of humor, or at least don&#8217;t understand the notion of satire. I&#8217;m a huge admirer of Barry Blitt, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/barack-and-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barack and Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[203,204,205,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-barry-blitt","category-david-remnick","category-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}