{"id":3419,"date":"2025-11-17T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:55:56","slug":"werent-they-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2025\/11\/17\/werent-they-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Weren&#8217;t They Funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Reinhard Kargl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish we still had artists turning out large volumes of thought-provoking and amusing  artwork for magazines and newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a cover of Life magazine from 1914, predicting what people would be wearing in 1950. The caption under the illustration reads, \u201cWeren\u2019t they funny?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"867\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-Magazine-Cover-1914.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-Magazine-Cover-1914.jpg 700w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-Magazine-Cover-1914-323x400.jpg 323w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Life-Magazine-Cover-1914-624x773.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Otho Williams McD. Cushing (October 22, 1870 \u2013 October 13, 1942) was an American artist, known primarily for his early 20th century illustration and cartoons, for magazines and posters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\"><h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3442\">Cover of LIFE Magazine, 1941<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3419\">Weren&#8217;t They Funny?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3372\">70 Years Ago<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3265\">A Letter From Mrs. Rayburn<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3257\">Cat On The Moon<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Reinhard Kargl I wish we still had artists turning out large volumes of thought-provoking and amusing artwork for magazines and newspapers. This is a cover of Life magazine from 1914, predicting what people would be wearing in 1950. The caption under the illustration reads, \u201cWeren\u2019t they funny?\u201d Otho Williams McD. Cushing (October 22, 1870 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}