{"id":25172,"date":"2024-11-27T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25172"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:51:18","slug":"sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/sticker-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d7d7d7&amp;d=dec24_issuu&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=30&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">One artist takes aim at cash vultures.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Clif Travers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Maybe you\u2019ve seen the signs but didn\u2019t register what they were. They look a lot like the ones that inspired them, the signs that first appeared on telephone poles and community bulletin boards in the early 2000s: <em>Cash For Your Home or Cash for Your Junk Car<\/em>. \u201cThese people are predators,\u201d Geoff Hargadon says, and he was inspired to shine a light on their depravity. Hargadon creates similar street lures offering money for valuable art. <em>Cash for Your Warhol,<\/em> they proclaim in evocative graphics that embed themselves into our world. A recent sighting was on parking signage outside Maine Hardware off St. John Street.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/StickerShock-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/StickerShock-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/StickerShock-1-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/StickerShock-1-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warhol Me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1492],"class_list":["post-25172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25197,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25172\/revisions\/25197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}