{"id":1209,"date":"2009-06-11T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T05:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2009-06-11T00:30:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T05:30:23","slug":"transparency-schmansperancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/06\/11\/transparency-schmansperancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency Schmansperancy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president has to be one of the most photographed in history.  A look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barackobamadotcom\">his active Flickr stream<\/a> will provide testimony to his ubiquitousness.  This is a deliberate strategy by the white house to control message (and put the paparazzi out of business&#8230;two birds with one stone!)  <\/p>\n<p>But the downside of this visual feast of White House images is that your chin is exposed.  Take this image of the president talking with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwimage.cbsnews.com\/images\/2009\/06\/09\/image5076108x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Innocuous looking?  It has apparently created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/06\/09\/world\/worldwatch\/entry5076128.shtml\">a stir<\/a> in Israel, presumably because showing the soles of your shoes in seen as an insult in the Arab world (i.e. the secret Muslim is thumbing his nose at Israel)!<\/p>\n<p>Is this just acceptable collateral damage from an administration that bathes us in images?  Or is this a signal that the administration needs to be more cautious about the POTUS&#8217; presentation of self?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president has to be one of the most photographed in history. A look at his active Flickr stream will provide testimony to his ubiquitousness. This is a deliberate strategy by the white house to control message (and put the paparazzi out of business&#8230;two birds with one stone!) But the downside of this visual feast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1497,362,263,194,1496],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flick","tag-images","tag-israel","tag-obama","tag-shoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}