[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-american-gothic":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Vern and Lettuce took a road trip to America and found it wasn't quite as rock 'n' roll as they thought it would be.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pickle_rye_gothic-3c3c2a27f5.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nI had to draw this when I saw this fascinating photo of the two models for the famous painting \u003Ca href=\"http://www.retronaut.co/2012/07/the-models-for-american-gothic/\">posted on Retronaut\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/american_gothic_models-85825fe82e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe woman looks much more glam than she does in the painting, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_gothic\">\u003Ci>American Gothic\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by Grant Wood. Same tight mouth, though. The man looks exactly the same. I posted it on Facebook and my friend Alice wrote, 'I'll bet he never dared wear dungarees again'.\\r\n\\r\nMy dad's been sort of obsessed with this painting; he thought it summed up a certain American-style, salt-of-the-earth religious correctness but complete joylessness, and he was always doing his impression of it at dinner parties. I went to see the original painting in Chicago when I was sixteen. I was supposed to be looking at universities there, but I went to one and instantly disliked it, so I skived off and went to the art museum instead. \\r\n\\r\nHere's the joyless picture I drew for my new Facebook profile photo. (Don't worry, you're not really missing anything over there.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/american_gothic-9980caf6c6.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_gothic2-d881029ae7.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd my sister just posted this song of the day:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1837\"/>","2012-07-10T06:42:00.000Z","american-gothic",[],"american gothic",1776628723958]