{"id":62562,"date":"2015-10-31T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62562"},"modified":"2015-10-31T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T12:24:33","slug":"the-civil-war-equivalent-of-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62562","title":{"rendered":"PhotoShop?  Pfft.  Try This Civil War Equivalent."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo from the Civil War.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;General Grant at City Point&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/science\/2015\/10\/30\/can-guess-whether-this-grant-image-has-been-photoshopped\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured-media\/media-0.img.jpg\/876\/493\/1446223620559.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one problem:\u00a0 it&#8217;s fake.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the Civil War era equivalent of a modern-day Photoshopped image.  The event &#8220;recorded&#8221; in the photo never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2015\/10\/30\/can-guess-whether-this-grant-image-has-been-photoshopped.html\"><em>has an interesting story<\/em><\/a> concerning the fake photo.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a short article, and IMO is well worth a few minutes of your time.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW:\u00a0 it&#8217;s also IMO a better job of combining photos than that done by someone we all &#8220;know and love&#8221;.\u00a0 And based on its copyright date (1902), it was done over a century earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo from the Civil War.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;General Grant at City Point&#8221;. There&#8217;s only &hellip; <a title=\"PhotoShop?  Pfft.  Try This Civil War Equivalent.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62562\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PhotoShop?  Pfft.  Try This Civil War Equivalent.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}