{"id":2600,"date":"2009-03-16T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:53:18","slug":"maybe-you-should-just-paint-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Maybe You Should Just Paint Walls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"500\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4.jpg 390w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/4-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ascension of Barack Obama has inspired a heightened wave of response from people worldwide, <a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2302\"  target=\"_blank\">much of it artistic<\/a>. That&#8217;s a good thing. The bad thing is that, well, a lot of that art is just <em>bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that seems to be the contention of the web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badpaintingsofbarackobama.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Bad Paintings of Barack Obama<\/em><\/a>. By flipping through its contents, viewers with the stomach for it can sample a range of pictorial takes on the 44th president, some skilled, some unskilled, and some just deranged. And some, like the hunky image of Obama, above, skin wet and glistening, emerging from the foaming waters like a Greek god-stud, roses lining his path as an untamed Arabian offers its worthy mount, are a bit of all three.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/howaboutthat\/4961632\/Bad-Paintings-of-Barack-Obama.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ascension of Barack Obama has inspired a heightened wave of response from people worldwide, much of it artistic. That&#8217;s a good thing. The bad thing is that, well, a lot of that art is just bad. Or at least that seems to be the contention of the web site Bad Paintings of Barack Obama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}