{"id":314,"date":"2005-02-16T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=314"},"modified":"2005-02-16T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T04:03:08","slug":"on-touching-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"On Touching the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still sneezing and sniffling, I wrote a letter today.<\/p>\n<p>Not an e-mail.  A letter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s to a friend of mine, one I&#8217;ve not spoken to or seen in several years.<\/p>\n<p>It says nothing profound, just summarizes the last few years in about two hundred words.  Here&#8217;s where I am.  Here&#8217;s the important things I&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<p>The letter uses a font I spent years searching for, only to discover I already had it.  I am <i>such<\/i> a font whore.  I wanted the font used by Del Rey in the table of contents of many of their mid- to late-80s science fiction books, an angular small-caps font.  It&#8217;s called Metro, and now I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>Enough about the font.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried contacting him before to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still sneezing and sniffling, I wrote a letter today. Not an e-mail. A letter. It&#8217;s to a friend of mine, one I&#8217;ve not spoken to or seen in several years. It says nothing profound, just summarizes the last few years in about two hundred words. Here&#8217;s where I am. Here&#8217;s the important things I&#8217;ve done.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=314\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Touching the Past&#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":[65],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}