{"id":4302,"date":"2016-08-16T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:10:40","slug":"the-birth-of-johnny-folk-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/the-birth-of-johnny-folk-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of Johnny Folk Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/INewImage-11.png\" alt=\"Johnny Cash\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>A little story of perseverance &amp; defiance from my past\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, when I got out of school with a History degree, I wasn\u2019t exactly highly employable, so I used my self-taught design &amp; coding skills to talk myself into an internship in NY. Most people at the agency were cool, but the admins were kind of petty tyrants who liked to deny things to the interns just to keep us in our (unpaid) places. That included denying us phones and nametags for our desks.<\/p>\n<p>Not digging the indignity, one weekend I came into the office, stuck a full-time colleague\u2019s nametag into a scanner, then brought it into Illustrator &amp; generated a template from which I could bang out my own versions. I proceeded to create a ton of absurd variations\u2014e.g. \u201cUnmoved Mover,\u201d \u201cHMFIC,\u201d etc.\u2014that I then cycled through displaying. One variation said \u201cJohnny Folk Hero,\u201d and I ended up leaving it up for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a woman came back from a meeting laughing: \u201cSomeone was in there asking whether a graphics intern could do a project. \u2018Isn\u2019t there a Johnny something?\u2019 she asked. \u2018Oh, John Nack?\u2019 \u2018No, it\u2019s like\u2026 something Native American, I think\u2014Johnny Folk Hero or something??\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, as you might imagine, kind of made my life. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Illegitimi non carborundum,<\/em><br \/>\nJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little story of perseverance &amp; defiance from my past\u2026 So, when I got out of school with a History degree, I wasn\u2019t exactly highly employable, so I used my self-taught design &amp; coding skills to talk myself into an internship in NY. Most people at the agency were cool, but the admins were kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302"}],"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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22127,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/22127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}