{"id":545821,"date":"2010-04-28T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005085"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:03:44","slug":"see-the-fortune-500-magazine-cover-that-was-too-brutally-honest-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545821","title":{"rendered":"See The Fortune 500 Magazine Cover That Was Too Brutally Honest To Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/042810-002-chris-ware-fortune-500-cover-thumb-300x197-39809.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Fortune magazine commissioned artist Chris Ware to design a cover for their 2010 Fortune 500 issue, so he did. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eyemagazine\/4545672011\/sizes\/l\/\">what he delivered<\/a> was a detailed, funny, and biting commentary on the current state of our economy&#8211;with banker types dancing on the top of mega-buildings that spell out &#8220;500,&#8221; a factory in Mexico churning out big box merchandise, and a &#8220;401k cemetary.&#8221; Fortune rejected it, but hasn&#8217;t provided any comment on why. Well, okay, it&#8217;s probably self-evident why they killed it, but it&#8217;s still funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoist.com\/2010\/04\/23\/fortune_rejects_chris_ware_cover.php\" >&#8220;Fortune Rejects Chris Ware&#8217;s Cover&#8221;<\/a> [Chicagoist via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/91337\/Paying-the-Kill-Fee\" >MetaFilter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune magazine commissioned artist Chris Ware to design a cover for their 2010 Fortune 500 issue, so he did. Unfortunately, what he delivered was a detailed, funny, and biting commentary on the current state of our economy&#8211;with banker types dancing on the top of mega-buildings that spell out &#8220;500,&#8221; a factory in Mexico churning out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}