{"id":2004,"date":"2008-04-15T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T15:52:03","slug":"font-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/font-of-wisdom","title":{"rendered":"Font of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I scored 26 out of 34 on <a href=\"http:\/\/ajax.sayitaintslow.com\/fontgame\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rather Difficult Font Game<\/a>. Top that!<\/p>\n<p>Oh and, like <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/mi\/i-wouldve-punched-myself-right-in-the-ovaries-if-itd-been-comic-sans\/\" target=\"_blank\">my wife<\/a>, I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.extensis.com\/typecaster\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.extensis.com\/typecaster\/images\/helvetica.png?resize=450%2C206\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Typecast Yourself!\" width=\"450\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, it&#8217;s high time we rented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticafilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">that movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scored 26 out of 34 on The Rather Difficult Font Game. Top that! Oh and, like my wife, I&#8217;m Speaking of which, it&#8217;s high time we rented that movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[101,102],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-font-game","tag-helvetica"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-wk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3280,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-whiter-teeth-chicago-style","url_meta":{"origin":2004,"position":0},"title":"Lost in the Supermarket: Whiter Teeth . . . 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