{"id":1994,"date":"2010-12-03T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T08:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/the_elite\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:32:43","slug":"the_elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/the_elite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overall,<\/strong> this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/babbage\/2010\/12\/doyen_type_design\"><i>Economist<\/i> article<\/a> on the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Carter\">Matthew Carter<\/a> is quite good, but for me this is the bit that stands: &#8220;Mr Carter sits near the pinnacle of an elite profession. No more than several thousand type designers ply the trade worldwide, only a few hundred earn their keep by it, and only several dozens \u2014 most of them dead \u2014 have their names on the lips of discerning aficionados.&nbsp;&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, this Economist article on the legendary Matthew Carter is quite good, but for me this is the bit that stands: &#8220;Mr Carter sits near the pinnacle of an elite profession. No more than several thousand type designers ply the trade worldwide, only a few hundred earn their keep by it, and only several dozens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/the_elite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Elite&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","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\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71108,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/71108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}