{"id":2268,"date":"2009-03-28T17:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2009-03-28T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:10:28","slug":"on-rainy-saturday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"On Rainy Saturday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are fonts that I like.  And there are fonts that I do not like.<\/p>\n<p>Among the fonts I do not like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comic Sans<\/li>\n<li>Garamond<\/li>\n<li>Times New Roman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should say that I don&#8217;t just not like Garamond.  I outright <i>hate<\/i> Garamond.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that I spent years looking at resumes working as a manager for EB Games.  And what font does Microsoft Word&#8217;s resume generator use?  Garamond.<\/p>\n<p>If you were applying for a job, you turned in a resume, and I saw Garamond, you already had two strikes against you.<\/p>\n<p>I dislike Times because of its ubiquity.<\/p>\n<p>And Comic Sans just because.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Someone wants information from me on &#8220;LEGO Bob Dylan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m&#8230; <i>intrigued<\/i> by this.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I don&#8217;t see the <i>point<\/i> to a LEGO Bob Dylan.  I don&#8217;t know what kind of sets you&#8217;d put together.<\/p>\n<p>LEGO Beatles could be interesting, though.  You could have a Cavern Club set.  (Complete with the tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, even!)  <i>A Hard Day&#8217;s Night<\/i> sets.  <i>Sgt Pepper<\/i> sets.  <i>Yellow Submarine<\/i> sets.  A Rooftop Concert set.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d buy LEGO Beatles sets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hmm.  I wonder if there are Beatles smiley sets.  I could spruce up my blog with Beatles smilies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It has been rainy today.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the smell of rain today.  It was the smell of springtime.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m ready for baseball season to well and truly start. :cubs:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fonts that I like. And there are fonts that I do not like. Among the fonts I do not like: Comic Sans Garamond Times New Roman I should say that I don&#8217;t just not like Garamond. I outright hate Garamond. The problem is that I spent years looking at resumes working as a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2268\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Rainy Saturday Thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[385,257,4103,543,98],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-bob-dylan","tag-fonts","tag-lego","tag-spring","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}