{"id":62753,"date":"2026-06-17T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=62753"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:55:50","slug":"iconic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/17\/iconic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the magic of Adobe Illustrator layers there are two versions of me today: Bearded and freshly shorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard-1024x778.png\" alt=\"An icon-style self portrait of me with a beard.\" class=\"wp-image-62755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard-1536x1167.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-beard.png 1905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1-1024x778.png\" alt=\"An icon-style self portrait of me without a beard.\" class=\"wp-image-62757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1-1536x1167.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617-no-beard-1.png 1905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the magic of Adobe Illustrator layers there are two versions of me today: Bearded and freshly shorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[375,408,407],"class_list":["post-62753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-portraits","tag-art","tag-illustrator","tag-self-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62759,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62753\/revisions\/62759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}