{"id":1178,"date":"2008-11-19T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2008-11-19T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T13:36:07","slug":"a-proposal-no-more-obama-as-fdr-images-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"A Proposal: No More &#8220;Obama as F.D.R&#8221; Images, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comparisons between Barack Obama and F.D.R. are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=obama+fdr\" target=\"_blank\">obvious<\/a>: a president taking office during a severe finanacial crisis who will likely institute a large government infrastructure-building program as part of the way out.\u00a0 So, you can&#8217;t really blame folks for capitalizing on this visually.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, these images seem to be nearing the &#8220;post-9\/11 crying eagle&#8221; saturation point&#8211;and they&#8217;re, well, <em>obvious<\/em>; there&#8217;s really nothing to this visual metaphor other than that one point of comparison .\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s time to move on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few exmples, culled just from stuff I had in my recycling bin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"fdr_1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1179 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fdr_1\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"fdr_2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1180 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fdr_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"fdr_3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1181 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fdr_3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fdr_3\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, that&#8217;s not to say nothing good has come from all this.\u00a0 That last image by Richard Thompson (and published in the New Yorker) is beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comparisons between Barack Obama and F.D.R. are obvious: a president taking office during a severe finanacial crisis who will likely institute a large government infrastructure-building program as part of the way out.\u00a0 So, you can&#8217;t really blame folks for capitalizing on this visually.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, these images seem to be nearing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1178\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-j0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}