{"id":1895,"date":"2009-01-14T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T07:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2009-01-14T23:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T07:55:41","slug":"obamas-people-new-york-times-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/obamas-people-new-york-times-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s People (New York Times Magazine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/magazine\/2009-inauguration-gallery\/\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/eugene.kang.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em> has a great online feature called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/magazine\/2009-inauguration-gallery\/\">Obama&#8217;s People<\/a>, showing pictures of some of the members of the new administration and his allies in Congress. There&#8217;s a slideshow and some narration by Narav Kander (photographer), and Kathy Ryan, the Times Magazine&#8217;s director of photography.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the idea was to get them photographed in a small, confined space and to let their gestures to the talking. Also, they asked each person to bring (if they wanted?) a personal item. <\/p>\n<p>Eugene Kang, a 24-year-old Obama political advisor, (who I&#8217;d never heard of until I saw this photo), brought a little notebook with him. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianamericansforobama.com\/new-york-times-magazine-special-interactive-feature-on-obamas-people\">Asian Americans for Obama<\/a>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>pay special attention to the book that Eugene Kang is holding &#8211; that\u2019s the book that contains the numbers of all of the people that Obama called throughout the campaign, written in Eugene\u2019s own hand! There\u2019s also a great anecdote about David Axelrod wanting to pose with a cookie in his hand, but the picture that made it into the gallery was a non-cookie one because the cookies didn\u2019t look real enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine has a great online feature called Obama&#8217;s People, showing pictures of some of the members of the new administration and his allies in Congress. There&#8217;s a slideshow and some narration by Narav Kander (photographer), and Kathy Ryan, the Times Magazine&#8217;s director of photography. Basically, the idea was to get them photographed in a small, confined space and to let their gestures to the talking. Also, they asked each person to bring (if they wanted?) a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-photography","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}