{"id":92683,"date":"2015-12-08T14:25:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92683"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:25:55","slug":"enter-caption-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/enter-caption-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter Caption Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/public-domain-vintage-childrens-book-illustration-animal-reading-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/public-domain-vintage-childrens-book-illustration-animal-reading-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/public-domain-vintage-childrens-book-illustration-animal-reading-dog.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/public-domain-vintage-childrens-book-illustration-animal-reading-dog-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here at the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>, we don\u2019t run a \u201cgift guide,\u201d as such\u2014though we do have <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/free-copy-of-the-unprofessionals-with-gift-subscription-to-the-paris-review\" target=\"_blank\">our special holiday offers<\/a>. Even so, I\u2019m here to solve all your holiday present questions. I\u2019m out of ideas! You say. What do I do? Where do I go? How do I live? All these questions have a single answer.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is this image of a dog in a fez and lounging pajamas, reading a newspaper.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I can detect your skepticism. Perhaps I must repeat the crucial information:<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>it is a dog, in a fez, reading a newspaper.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The image comes via one of the Internet\u2019s most useful sites,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freevintageillustrations.com\/\">Free Vintage Illustrations<\/a>, in which the webmaster has taken the trouble to find antique clip art from all over the place and sorted and captioned the images in an informative and entertaining fashion. (The \u201cImaginative Illustration\u201d category alone is worth your time.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, what to do with it? Why, anything! Go to a site like Zazzle and put your be-fezzed dog on a T-shirt, a mug, some stationery, a phone case. Add an inscrutable caption: I think \u201cAs a dog returns\u00a0to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly\u201d is always apropos, but have fun with it!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or, you know, there\u2019s always\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/free-copy-of-the-unprofessionals-with-gift-subscription-to-the-paris-review\">a nice gift subscription<\/a>. But really, isn\u2019t that even better when read in\u2014get this\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/fez-o-rama.com\/\">a custom fez<\/a>\u00a0embroidered with a dog, in a fez, reading?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the\u00a0Review, we don\u2019t run a \u201cgift guide,\u201d as such\u2014though we do have our special holiday offers. 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