{"id":36,"date":"2008-04-15T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/04\/15\/norman-rockwell-taxes\/"},"modified":"2010-12-27T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T05:46:02","slug":"norman-rockwell-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/15\/norman-rockwell-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell &#8220;Taxes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Normal Rockwell Taxes\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/rockwell.jpg\" alt=\"Normal Rockwell Taxes\" width=\"389\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In honor of tax day here in the United States, I thought I would post one of my favorite <a title=\"Norman Rockwell\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Rockwell\">Norman Rockwell<\/a> images.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called &#8220;Taxes&#8221;, sometimes called &#8220;Income Taxes&#8221; or &#8220;Beating the Deadline&#8221;.\u00a0 It was featured on the cover of <a title=\"The Saturday Evening Post\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Saturday_Evening_Post\">The Saturday Evening Post<\/a> on March 17, 1945.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a big Norman Rockwell geek, so you may see more Rockwell images in the future on my blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the interesting things about this image is the calendar. It&#8217;s hard to read at this resolution, but it&#8217;s actually the calendar for March, not April.\u00a0 <a title=\"March 15\" href=\"http:\/\/ask.yahoo.com\/20020415.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Turns out that from 1918 &#8211; 1955, tax day was actually March 15<\/a>.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until 1955 that it was moved to April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now you know&#8230; and knowing is half the battle!\u00a0 Yo\u00a0Bean-Counter Joe!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-36\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/15\/norman-rockwell-taxes\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on 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wonderful Norman Rockwell tribute by John Byrne done in 2007.\u00a0 This is a homage to Rockwell's famous \"Runaway\" painting.\u00a0 Check out the inked work below,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Normal Rockwell homage by John Byrne","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/rockwell_byrne.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":71,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/23\/faces-that-made-norman-rockwell-famous\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":1},"title":"Faces that Made Norman Rockwell Famous","date":"May 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing my passion for Norman Rockwell... Here is a great interview about the models that Norman Rockwell used.\u00a0 It's from Growing Bolder.com.\u00a0 My thanks to Katy Widrick for pointing out this interview. \u00a0 \u00a0 If you can't watch the embedded video above, click here to watch the video.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":207,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":2},"title":"Happy Thanksgiving To The Geeks!","date":"November 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Thanksgiving to all of you here in the United States!\u00a0 For my international readers... sorry, our country is closed today for massive turkey consumption and tryptophan-induced comas.\u00a0 Come back tomorrow for the craziest shopping day of the year. Continuing my passion for Norman Rockwell... here is his 1943 \"Freedom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Normal Rockwell's Thanksgiving","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/thanksgiving1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":104,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/07\/a-very-happy-fourth-of-july\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":3},"title":"A Very Happy Fourth of July","date":"July 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know about you, but I had a fantastic Fourth of July!\u00a0 It was a very family-oriented holiday this year.\u00a0 It felt like a day drafted by Normal Rockwell.\u00a0 We started the day by sleeping in a bit (well, the kids let us sleep until 8:30am), swam\/played in pool\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":230,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/24\/christmas-with-the-super-heroes-part-1-santa-claus-is-coming-to-town\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":4},"title":"Christmas with the Super-Heroes Part 1 &#8211; Santa Claus is Coming to Town","date":"December 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We here at ONCE UPON A GEEK wish you and your loved ones a wonderful Christmas Eve!\u00a0 To help celebrate, please enjoy these comic book covers featuring Santa Claus.\u00a0 Come back tomorrow for even more Christmas-related covers. Crazy!\u00a0 Who knew the Kryptonian and the Kringle were so tight?!?!? \"Don't worry,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Action Comics 105","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/xmas1_action.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/07\/spectacular-spider-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":36,"position":5},"title":"Spectacular Spider-Man","date":"April 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"On Saturday, I caught the first episode of the new Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon on Kids WB. Wow, it was pretty cool! \u00a0I really enjoyed it!\u00a0 It had a nice rapid pace, lots of information in each scene, and some really cool Spider-Man moments. I'm not sure how Spider-Man purists will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/spec_spidey.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}