{"id":9,"date":"1996-08-11T21:08:43","date_gmt":"1996-08-11T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/le_car_crads\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:47:24","slug":"le_car_crads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/le_car_crads\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Car Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/millebournes.gif\" width=\"372\" height=\"499\" alt=\"Milles Bournes\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My roommate Mark <\/strong>came home from the weekly visit to the neighborhood thrift store with a set of Milles Bournes cards that Parker Brothers put out some time in the sixties. (Milles Bournes is a card game where you rack up points by metaphorically travelling through the French countryside.) I instantly fell in love with the design of these cards &#8212; the style of illustration, the use of type, all of it. It is such an elegant solution &#8212; a breezy sense of fun was created without neon, dumb jokes, product placement, or low-brow caricature. Those were the days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My roommate Mark came home from the weekly visit to the neighborhood thrift store with a set of Milles Bournes cards that Parker Brothers put out some time in the sixties. (Milles Bournes is a card game where you rack up points by metaphorically travelling through the French countryside.) I instantly fell in love with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/le_car_crads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Car Cards&#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":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrahistorical","category-ultrascrapbook","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69149,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/69149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}