{"id":330,"date":"2006-11-22T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/11\/22\/kitsch\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:25:39","slug":"kitsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/11\/22\/kitsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Runaway winner of the 2006 Bad Taste award<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Kitsch<\/i> is a German word used to describe taste so bad that you have to laugh that someone actually paid money for the item involved.  <\/p>\n<p>A friend (?) sent me a picture of this execrable excrescence, knowing full well it would incur my wrath. It looks too real to be a piece of Photoshop work. I was in two minds whether to share it in this journal but felt I had a duty to disclose.  If you are thinking of doing this to your Leica, or maybe have already done so, please cease reading this journal.  You are emphatically not a welcome reader of a journal noted for its good taste.<\/p>\n<p>Before scrolling down to see the picture, please make sure you do so on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee shown here has to be the runaway winner of the 2006 Kitsch Award.  And the year isn&#8217;t even over yet.  There is no accounting what more money than taste will do.<\/p>\n<p>Now you will have to scroll down &#8211; if you have the courage.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/YellowM4.jpg><br \/>\n<i>No, that&#8217;s not your imagination.  That really is a yellow Leica<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runaway winner of the 2006 Bad Taste award. Kitsch is a German word used to describe taste so bad that you have to laugh that someone actually paid money for the item involved. A friend (?) sent me a picture of this execrable excrescence, knowing full well it would incur my wrath. It looks too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/11\/22\/kitsch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kitsch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}