{"id":2680,"date":"2015-06-11T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:03:28","slug":"new-on-the-blinking-line-journal-this-is-not-an-appealing-woman-but-a-treacherous-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"New On The Blinking Line Journal: This Is Not an Appealing Woman But a Treacherous Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/e77932c83e0332d7c67866a60438625e\/tumblr_nairfx4VFA1qznoj2o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nThis 1940 poster uses the same technique of featuring the heavily made-up, cigarette-smoking woman as a venereal disease carrier. Appealing to the soldier&#8217;s interest in the eye-catching woman, the headline playfully warns &#8220;She may be. . . a bag of TROUBLE.&#8221; The contrasts in color, font size, and capitalization draw the viewer&#8217;s attention to the word &#8220;trouble&#8221; in an attempt to create an association between the word and the image. Below the warning, the inclusion of the words &#8220;syphilis-gonorrhea&#8221; further suggest to the viewer that this is not an appealing woman but a treacherous menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1940 poster uses the same technique of featuring the heavily made-up, cigarette-smoking woman as a venereal disease carrier. Appealing to the soldier&#8217;s interest in the eye-catching woman, the headline playfully warns &#8220;She may be. . . a bag of TROUBLE.&#8221; The contrasts in color, font size, and capitalization draw the viewer&#8217;s attention to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blinkinglinejournal","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}