{"id":1761,"date":"2008-12-04T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/take_the_h_trai\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:59:43","slug":"take_the_h_trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/take_the_h_trai\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the H Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Times hops on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2008\/11\/standard_medium.html\">Helvetica subway<\/a> car<\/strong> with this<a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/04\/how-helvetica-took-over-the-subway\/\"  title=\"How Helvetica Took Over the Subway\"> shorter, simpler version<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiga.org\/content.cfm\/the-mostly-true-story-of-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway?pp=1\">Paul Shaw&#8217;s history<\/a> of subway typography.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Subway Helvetica\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/cam\/subway_helvetica.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\"  vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[I am totally waiting for the Helvetica backlash to kick in any day now.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times hops on the Helvetica subway car with this shorter, simpler version of the Paul Shaw&#8217;s history of subway typography. [I am totally waiting for the Helvetica backlash to kick in any day now.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}