{"id":252,"date":"2008-04-29T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/252"},"modified":"2008-04-29T05:48:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T10:48:14","slug":"name-that-ampersand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"Name That Ampersand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than you probably wanted to know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typography.com\/ask\/showBlog.php?blogID=98\">ampersands<\/a> and how they look in different fonts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of \u201cet,\u201d the Latin word for \u201cand.\u201d Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint at this origin, sometimes in very oblique ways. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than you probably wanted to know about ampersands and how they look in different fonts. As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of \u201cet,\u201d the Latin word for \u201cand.\u201d Its shape has evolved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}