{"id":36763,"date":"2014-06-29T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36763"},"modified":"2014-06-29T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:24:20","slug":"bill-de-blasio-and-the-art-of-political-image-at-the-mermaid-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36763","title":{"rendered":"Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at&#8230; the Mermaid Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runway.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/23\/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-and-coney-island-mermaid-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at&#8230; the Mermaid Parade<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-06-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanessa_Friedman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vanessa Friedman<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Fashion Critic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runway.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/23\/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-and-coney-island-mermaid-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2014\/06\/23\/fashion\/23runway\/23runway-blog480.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg\/Associated Press]<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/a> and his family had kind of an interesting fashion moment over the weekend. In case you missed it, I offer the above photo of Mr. de Blasio in pirate kit; his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chirlane_McCray\" target=\"_blank\">Chirlane McCray<\/a>, in full <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ariel_(The_Little_Mermaid)\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel<\/a> getup and their two children both body-painted blue \u2014 all for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coneyisland.com\/programs\/mermaid-parade\" target=\"_blank\">Coney Island Mermaid Parade<\/a>. In fact, Dante and Chiara were king and queen of the parade, a kitsch classic that takes place on the first official day of summer (i.e. Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter beyond the obvious comedic value? Strategy and image spin, my dear Watson. Strategy and image spin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/runway.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/23\/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-and-coney-island-mermaid-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at&#8230; the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg\/Associated Press] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,26,20],"tags":[15381,596,2640,2327,17548],"class_list":["post-36763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tina-fineberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}