{"id":385,"date":"2012-09-23T17:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=385"},"modified":"2012-09-23T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T21:49:39","slug":"human-rights-cover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/09\/23\/human-rights-cover-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the cover for Human Rights in an Advancing Civilization.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually been <a href=\"http:\/\/georgeronald.com\/show_book.php?book_id=329\" target=\"_blank\">up for a few weeks<\/a> now on the publisher&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve browsed human rights books before, you may have an idea of how challenging it is to come up with a cover image to represent a concept.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the books on my shelf, most of the covers either focus on the title or a combination of the title and abstract designs.\u00c2\u00a0 Globes are also popular, as are sunrises (a sunrise over the globe brings it all together), and occasionally a vague image suggestive of human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>I think this image strikes the right balance between reality and abstraction, caution and promise.\u00c2\u00a0 Wendi Momen told me, &#8220;to me the bird represents rights and freedom, but as yet unrealised, and the barbed wire the potential threats to those.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the cover for Human Rights in an Advancing Civilization.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually been up for a few weeks now on the publisher&#8217;s website. If you&#8217;ve browsed human rights books before, you may have an idea of how challenging it is to come up with a cover image to represent a concept.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the books on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[110,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}