{"id":4548,"date":"2009-01-26T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2009-01-26T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:22:44","slug":"shepard-fairys-obama-posse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Fairy&#8217;s Obama Posse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/shepard-fairey2-1232822573-4613.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/shepard-fairey2-1232822573-4613.jpg','popup','width=539,height=359,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/shepard-fairey2-1232822573-4613-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Shepard Fairey2  1232822573 4613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepard Fairy<\/strong> has had a pretty good year. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/theater_arts\/articles\/2009\/01\/25\/shepard_the_giant\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> recounts the year and tells the age-old story of a skateboarder who made stickers featuring pro wrestler <strong>Andre The Giant<\/strong>, went on to create a poster an Obama poster for hope, and has a new solo show at Boston&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icaboston.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Contemporary Art<\/a><\/strong> opening February 6, 2009 which runs until August.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Versions of his Obama portrait have graced the covers of <strong><em>Time<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Esquire<\/em><\/strong> magazines, and this month, the Smithsonian hung his hand-finished version in the National Portrait Gallery. It is the same place, Fairey notes with an in credulous tone, that has hung &#8220;the George Washington that&#8217;s not finished on the bottom.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it is a wonderful story, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/theater_arts\/articles\/2009\/01\/25\/shepard_the_giant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shepard Fairy has had a pretty good year. The Boston Globe recounts the year and tells the age-old story of a skateboarder who made stickers featuring pro wrestler Andre The Giant, went on to create a poster an Obama poster for hope, and has a new solo show at Boston&#8217;s Institute of Contemporary Art opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}