{"id":6852,"date":"2013-02-02T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2013-02-02T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:16:10","slug":"on-complaints-over-typefaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6852","title":{"rendered":"On Complaints Over Typefaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media can be stupid.<\/p>\n<p>While that can be a general complaint, in this case, there&#8217;s a specific reason I say that.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton has come under fire because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2013\/02\/01\/hillary_clinton_typeface_letter_of_resignation_uses_poor_richard_why.html\">she wrote her resignation letter using the Poor Richard font<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Really?  Seriously?  She goes in for criticism because of the <i>font<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used Poor Richard.  I suppose it&#8217;s meant to evoke Benjamin Franklin.  It&#8217;s a nice font.  It&#8217;s not my <i>favorite<\/i> font (that would be Palatino Linotype), but it&#8217;s a font with character and style.<\/p>\n<p>If she had used Comic Sans, I could see a reason for criticism.  But she didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But even then, it&#8217;s just a font.<\/p>\n<p>Just a font.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media can be stupid. While that can be a general complaint, in this case, there&#8217;s a specific reason I say that. Hillary Clinton has come under fire because she wrote her resignation letter using the Poor Richard font. Really? Seriously? She goes in for criticism because of the font? I&#8217;ve used Poor Richard. I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6852\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Complaints Over Typefaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[256,257,258,259],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-comic-sans","tag-fonts","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-poor-richard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","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=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}