{"id":8913,"date":"2017-04-27T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2017-04-22T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T18:15:57","slug":"a-political-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8913","title":{"rendered":"A Political Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 1990s, when my writing career first took off, I&#8217;ve taken advantage of the US President&#8217;s picture in my books. To avoid legal entanglements, I use a public domain image of a well-recognized figure. I choose the US President&#8217;s image as a tradition, but now I&#8217;m having trepidations.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe politically-charged atmosphere is extreme, not only in the US but all over the world. Donald Trump is President of the United States. By tradition, I should use his photo in my books. I feel pressure not to do so, not from the publisher, but from the outraged mobs that daily protest everything that Trump does. No one wants to piss off a group of angry people &mdash; or give someone a reason to boycott my books.<\/p>\n<p>As a review, Figure 1 shows an image from <em>Word 95 For Dummies<\/em>, which used both Bill and Hillary Clinton. I got flack for the image from some readers, who asked that I keep my personal politics out of my books. Again, it wasn&#8217;t personal politics; Clinton was the US President. I used other pictures of him as well, all public domain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8914\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/word95.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/word95.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/word95-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. A figure demonstrating how to place an image into a table in Word.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I can&#8217;t readily find any images of George W. Bush in my archives, though I know I did use his image in a few of my books. Since my first Android book came out about five years ago, I&#8217;ve used Obama, as shown in Figure 2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8915\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/android_phones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/android_phones.png 240w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/android_phones-180x300.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Obama has been in my phone&#8217;s address book since I wrote my first Android book.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That phone number is the White House main line, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the last presidential candidate I voted for who won was Ronald Reagan in 1984. After that, my track record is pretty dismal. I am not a registered Republican or Democrat and I have friends from both parties. Still, if I use Trump&#8217;s image in my books, I fear flack and feedback. So the intimidation from the anti-Trump forces actually works in that I don&#8217;t want to be a target, especially to a target-hungry group of angry individuals. Yet to avoid using his image in my books, I bow to pressure and skip my tradition.<\/p>\n<p>So can I use the Pope? I suppose I should give Vatican City a call . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must I break with traditional to be politically correct?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8941,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}