{"id":3933,"date":"2009-01-21T01:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2012-02-02T04:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T04:33:35","slug":"obamicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/21\/obamicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obamiconme.pastemagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3934\" title=\"poebama.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/poebama.jpg\" alt=\"poebama.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/poebama.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/poebama-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given this week&#8217;s conjunction of a Poe anniversary and the Presidential Inauguration, creating this was irresistible. <a href=\"http:\/\/obamiconme.pastemagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obamicon.me<\/a> allows you to turn any photo into something resembling <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/b6\/Obamaposter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Shepard Fairey&#8217;s ubiquitous Obama poster<\/a>. The only drawbacks are the way the processing stretches the type and the use of Arial for the title, a font which few self-respecting designers can bear to use. If you&#8217;re as picky as I am, some Photoshop post-production is required.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/05\/the-best-font-won\/\">The best font won<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/29\/another-lazy-meme-post\/\">Another lazy meme post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given this week&#8217;s conjunction of a Poe anniversary and the Presidential Inauguration, creating this was irresistible. Obamicon.me allows you to turn any photo into something resembling Shepard Fairey&#8217;s ubiquitous Obama poster. The only drawbacks are the way the processing stretches the type and the use of Arial for the title, a font which few self-respecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/21\/obamicon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obamicon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,14,10],"tags":[93,105,109,108],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-politics","category-typography","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-obama","tag-shepard-fairey","tag-web-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sq7rV-obamicon","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}