{"id":7542,"date":"2009-04-28T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2009-04-28T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:05:27","slug":"a-photograph-is-not-a-caricature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7542","title":{"rendered":"A photograph is not a caricature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Washington Post blogger,<\/p>\n

A photograph <\/a>is not a caricature, so please don’t put it in a “what’s the best caricature?”<\/a> poll, okay? Because the fact that a plurality of readers of a blog about cartooning, voted for the photo as the best caricature, is just embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Via: Kevin Moore<\/a> and Matt Bors<\/a>, both of whom recreate John Sherffius’ feat of caricature in about five minutes.<\/p>\n

ETA: Just to be clear, I’m not anti- using photos. I use photos all the time. But it’s not caricature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Washington Post blogger, A photograph is not a caricature, so please don’t put it in a “what’s the best caricature?” poll, okay? Because the fact that a plurality of readers of a blog about cartooning, voted for the photo … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}