{"id":19111,"date":"2022-03-12T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2022-03-12T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:16:47","slug":"putins-tracks-ukraine-in-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/12\/putins-tracks-ukraine-in-black-white\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Putin&#8217;s Tracks&#8221;: Ukraine in black &#038; white"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Illustrator David Plunkert made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cover-story\/cover-story-2022-03-07\">chilling distillation of history&#8217;s echoes<\/a> for the cover of the New Yorker:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Tracks.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1886\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Tracks.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19112\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Look at it this way,&#8221; my son noted, &#8220;At least the tracks suggest that it&#8217;s retreating.&#8221; God, let it be so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, I don&#8217;t know the origin of this image, but it&#8217;s hard to think of a case where a simple Desaturate command was so powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"654\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19113\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-1.jpeg 654w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ukraine-1-204x300.jpeg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrator David Plunkert made a chilling distillation of history&#8217;s echoes for the cover of the New Yorker: &#8220;Look at it this way,&#8221; my son noted, &#8220;At least the tracks suggest that it&#8217;s retreating.&#8221; God, let it be so. Elsewhere, I don&#8217;t know the origin of this image, but it&#8217;s hard to think of a case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19114,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/19114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}