{"id":739,"date":"2003-01-20T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2023-02-10T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:12:50","slug":"al-hirschfeld-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"RIP Al Hirschfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/012003hirsh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/012003hirsh.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><b style=\"font-family: arial; color: #cc0000;\"> AL HIRSCHFELD<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> passed away today at the age of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">99<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;\">Mr. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; color: #cc0000;\">HIRSCHFELD<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">best known caricaturist in the world<\/span>, had captured the likeness of everyone who was anyone in show business from the 1920s until his passing.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"color: #cc0000;\">AL HIRSCHFELD<\/b> was known for hiding his daughter&#8217;s name, <b>NINA<\/b>, in each of his pieces [sometimes more than once]. This tradition began in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1945<\/span>. After about a month, <b>Mr. HIRSCHFELD <\/b>briefly stopped putting in the <b>NINA<\/b>s, but fans quickly complained and the <b>NINAs<\/b> were back to stay [along with a number indicating how many <b>NINAs<\/b> were hidden in each piece!].<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to <b style=\"color: #cc0000;\">AL HIRSCHFELD<\/b>&#8216;s family and friends. [Thanks to <b style=\"color: #cc0000;\">John Beatty<\/b> for the heads-up.]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL HIRSCHFELD passed away today at the age of 99.\u00a0 Mr. HIRSCHFELD, the best known caricaturist in the world, had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31821,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/31821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}