{"id":77597,"date":"2025-01-26T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=77597"},"modified":"2025-01-26T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T22:26:50","slug":"look-for-the-union-label-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/look-for-the-union-label-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Look for the Union Label, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/14\/look-for-the-union-label\/\">last post<\/a> was a tease, because this was in the planning stages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo-1024x927.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo-1024x927.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo-768x695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo-1200x1087.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ITU_tattoo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new tattoo is adjacent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/the-alphabet-man\/\">overall theme<\/a>, but I\u2019ve wanted it for a while, and I\u2019m glad I waited until I had the nerve to go big and bold with it on the available real estate on my back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Typographical_Union\">International Typographical Union<\/a> no longer exists, as the industry has transformed far too much to resemble the trade that the union once represented. However, I like the idea of an organization whose purpose is to support and protect a niche skill like the practice of typography. Typography is really all I\u2019m good for these days, so the tattoo is sort of a talisman  to hopefully keep sending opportunities to survive in my niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That last post was a tease, because this was in the planning stages:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrascrapbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77597","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=77597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77599,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77597\/revisions\/77599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}