{"id":507,"date":"2009-09-15T23:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T06:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/text-is-by-tracy-gidinski\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:30:08","slug":"text-is-by-tracy-gidinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/text-is-by-tracy-gidinski\/","title":{"rendered":"Text is&#8230;by Tracy Gidinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81875383@N00\/431731888\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/167\/431731888_6eb1902609.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81875383@N00\/431731888\/\">Prague &#8211; stained glass window<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/81875383@N00\/\">thebevster<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This Mucha stained glass in St. Vitus&#8217; Cathedral in Prague represents to me what text is.  What I love about this stained glass is its modern take on a classic format.  Instead of copying the style of the past when Mucha was asked to design it in the 1930&#8217;s, he wove history and the present day together to create something that represented both his history and his modern era.  Likewise, text is the capturing of a culture at a given moment while simultaneously weaving in elements of that culture&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, like Mucha&#8217;s stained glass techniques included modern technologies, making his images different than those of the past, new technologies add change and new shape to text.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, text and technology cannot be viewed as separate entities but as reflections of one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prague &#8211; stained glass window, originally uploaded by thebevster. This Mucha stained glass in St. Vitus&#8217; Cathedral in Prague represents to me what text is. What I love about this stained glass is its modern take on a classic format. Instead of copying the style of the past when Mucha was asked to design it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972],"tags":[6810],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}