{"id":6419,"date":"2015-08-26T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T12:09:08","slug":"justine-lai-and-the-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/justine-lai-and-the-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Justine Lai and the presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just wondering what happened to artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinelai.com\/index.html\">Justine Lai&#8217;<\/a>s series on her paintings of the presidents.\u00a0 She has moved on, as evidenced by her online gallery, but the i09 post on her work is a great sampling of of\u00a0 her previous concentration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5213438\/an-alternate-sexual-history-of-the-united-states-nsfw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/18r7i529zuil3jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>How would our world today be different if one adventurous woman had traveled back in time and had glorious sex with every single US president? Time-traveling artist Justine Lai is about to find out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5213438\/an-alternate-sexual-history-of-the-united-states-nsfw\">An Alternate Sexual History of the United States [NSFW]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just wondering what happened to artist Justine Lai&#8217;s series on her paintings of the presidents.\u00a0 She has moved on, as evidenced by her online gallery, but the i09 post on her work is a great sampling of of\u00a0 her previous concentration. How would our world today be different if one adventurous woman had&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/justine-lai-and-the-presidents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Justine Lai and the presidents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60,172],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art","tag-consumption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10853,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/holidays-in-the-movies-presidents-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":6419,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies: President&#8217;s Day","author":"leems","date":"February 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Theatrical release poster for Coraline. 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