{"id":15255,"date":"2003-01-21T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/al-hirschfeld-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2003-01-21T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T17:43:00","slug":"al-hirschfeld-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/al-hirschfeld-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Hirschfeld Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr valign=\"center\">\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;amp;u=\/ap\/20030120\/ap_on_en_ot\/obit_hirschfeld_3\" target=\"_blank\">Famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld died<\/a> yesterday at the age of 99.  His &ldquo;graceful, fluid caricatures captured the essence of performers from Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Seinfeld,&rdquo; and often included hidden tributes to his daughter Nina with the letters &ldquo;NINA&rdquo; inserted into the artwork as hair, folds in clothes, or other details.  Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhirschfeld.com\/random\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">great gallery of his work<\/a> and mourn the loss of this icon.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhirschfeld.com\/random\/index.html\" title=\"Al Hirschfeld Bruce Springsteen\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Al Hirschfeld Bruce Springsteen\" border=\"0\" src=\"blogicons\/hirschfeld_springsteen.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhirschfeld.com\/random\/index.html\" title=\"Al Hirschfeld NINA detail\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Al Hirschfeld NINA detail\" border=\"0\" src=\"blogicons\/hirschfeld_springsteen_nina.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90214156?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld died yesterday at the age of 99. His &ldquo;graceful, fluid caricatures captured the essence of performers from Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Seinfeld,&rdquo; and often included hidden tributes to his daughter Nina with the letters &ldquo;NINA&rdquo; inserted into the artwork as hair, folds in clothes, or other details. Check out this great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/21\/al-hirschfeld-passes-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Hirschfeld Passes On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}