{"id":1659,"date":"2008-07-17T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T05:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/we-apologize\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T15:19:19","slug":"we-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/we-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"we apologize (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this sign for the first time. It reads, &#8220;Connecticut Welcomes You. Birthplace of George W. Bush. We Apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Awesome (Updated note: it turns out that this sign is a mash-up \/ fake, but still awesome in my opinion. See comments for more.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/connecticut-wecomes-you.jpeg?w=850\" alt=\"Connecticut welcomes you. Birthplace of George W. Bush. We apologize.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this sign for the first time. It reads, &#8220;Connecticut Welcomes You. Birthplace of George W. Bush. We Apologize.&#8221; Awesome (Updated note: it turns out that this sign is a mash-up \/ fake, but still awesome in my opinion. 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In this ongoing series of prints, I strap a desktop scanner, laptop and custom battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/compressionism-site.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}