{"id":40,"date":"2008-05-14T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/duck-and-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:39:49","slug":"duck-and-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/art-design\/duck-and-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck and Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I came home and found Britney Spears on the cover of my April <em>Atlantic<\/em>. I immediately sent off an email to Gawker:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Subject: wintry mix, chance of locusts<br \/>omg srsly, what is the world coming to when britney graces the cover of the fucking atlantic?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5003592\/everyone-officially-a-tabloid-or-about-to-become-one\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s Ryan Tate&#8217;s write-up.)<\/p>\n<p>Last week I found that the <em>Atlantic<\/em> had answered my question with its June cover. This is what the world is coming to:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/05\/14\/atlantic_britney_225.jpg\" title=\"Atlantic_britney_225\" alt=\"Atlantic_britney_225\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/05\/14\/atlantic_skyfalling225.jpg\" title=\"Atlantic_skyfalling225\" alt=\"Atlantic_skyfalling225\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Apparently asteroids will be saving the rest of the universe from Brit Brit. (The attentive will also notice that the mercurial mastermind Professor X has a byline in the issue. Coincidence?)<\/p>\n<p>In just two months the <em>Atlantic<\/em>, which usually features politics on its cover, has gone from <em>US Weekly<\/em> to <em>Discover<\/em>. Looking forward to the Alfred E. Neuman portrait in August. (Calling <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panopticist.com\/categories\/the_magazine_covers\/\">Andrew Hearst<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I came home and found Britney Spears on the cover of my April Atlantic. I immediately sent off an email to Gawker: Subject: wintry mix, chance of locustsomg srsly, what is the world coming to when britney graces the cover of the fucking atlantic? (Here&#8216;s Ryan Tate&#8217;s write-up.) Last week I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-design","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}