{"id":54391,"date":"2023-04-11T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=54391"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:46:01","slug":"how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=54391","title":{"rendered":"How Ben Affleck\u2019s \u2018Air\u2019 Immortalizes Michael Jordan Against a Backdrop of \u201980s Pop Ephemera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan and his signature sneakers have been a fixture of pop culture since 1984, when Sonny Vaccaro convinced the then-rookie (and more importantly, his shrewd mother, Deloris) to sign an industry-changing endorsement deal with sportswear brand Nike. \u201cAir\u201d dramatizes many of the finer points of these real-life events&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/air-michael-jordan-nike-basketball-shoes-1235575308\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan and his signature sneakers have been a fixture of pop culture since 1984,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera.jpg",1500,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera.jpg",1500,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera.jpg",1500,1000,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/54391-how-ben-afflecks-air-immortalizes-michael-jordan-against-a-backdrop-of-80s-pop-ephemera-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}