{"id":52,"date":"2018-04-17T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:04:35","slug":"words-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Words and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3307\" height=\"2480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit.jpg 3307w, http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Brexit-52x39.jpg 52w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3307px) 100vw, 3307px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi everyone, welcome to my new blog!<\/p>\n<p>For the past few years I&#8217;ve had a web and print project called Optimology* through which I&#8217;ve explored aspects of culture and society, and particularly the power &#8211; and mutability &#8211; of language.<\/p>\n<p>When I say language, I&#8217;m talking specifically about the English language, which &#8211; I&#8217;m ashamed to say &#8211; is the only language I speak. English has over time become the lingua franca, and is the language of business and code. It has inserted itself into use in other languages, often without translation.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes gather words together and juxtapose them within existing graphic vehicles in our physical landscapes, like signage, packaging or menus. These are some examples.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/No-skateboarding.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"795\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*optimology.org \/ @optimology (instagram)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, welcome to my new blog! For the past few years I&#8217;ve had a web and print&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}