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Ten Years Ago, the “Sad Zoo Kid” Photo Became an Emblem of the 2013 Government Shutdown. Here’s the Story Behind It.
The zoo, like national parks and other facilities funded by the US government, was closed that day because of a shutdown fueled by GOP ambitions to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or to perhaps even stymie it altogether. So Justin and Whit watched the construction trucks instead—until Whit got bored and climbed up on the zoo gate that was normally open, holding onto the bars underneath a sign that read “The Zoo is temporarily closed.
“I think that was one of my loss-of-innocence moments of realizing that photographic evidence has no monopoly on reality,” Justin says. “It can be wildly misinterpreted.” This was one of those events that made me realize that social media, amongst other reasons, can be an unhealthy place to take your view of reality.”
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