{"id":785,"date":"2020-02-26T23:57:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2020-02-26T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:58:35","slug":"norman-rockwell-yippie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell, Yippie!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Carson has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/2020\/2\/19\/21052356\/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with-saturday-evening-post\"> a piece at Vox about Rockwell becoming politicized<\/a> in the 1960s, something I didn&#8217;t know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first painting Rockwell did for Look magazine, after moving over from Saturday Evening Post, was a vivid statement about race in those tumultuous times. Alas, all the well-meaning actions at the time stalled and ended up meaning more as a symbolic nod than any radical change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re still waiting for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Carson has a piece at Vox about Rockwell becoming politicized in the 1960s, something I didn&#8217;t know about. The first painting Rockwell did for Look magazine, after moving over from Saturday Evening Post, was a vivid statement about race in those tumultuous times. Alas, all the well-meaning actions at the time stalled and ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norman Rockwell, Yippie!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/theproblemwealllivewith.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}