{"id":628,"date":"2008-01-11T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/628"},"modified":"2008-01-11T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T20:27:46","slug":"face-in-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/628","title":{"rendered":"Face in your face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished catching up with one of my favorite blogs,   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/\">The Sneeze<\/a>. I got to read the saga of The Face (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/mt-archives\/000715.php\">read it here<\/a>). Basically,   Steve&#8217;s dad always drew this face on cards, birthday cakes, etc.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/art\/loose_art\/theface.jpg\" alt=\"The Face\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve interviewed his father about it, and after blogging about it, found out where it originally came from. It&#8217;s a hilarious story (my favorite part, the part where I laughed silently to myself at my desk in the library, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/mt-archives\/000713.php\">speculates on the other objects drawn on one of the cakes his father decorated<\/a>), and in the end, I found myself wishing I had a signature little sketch that I could use &#8211; not as a personal symbol necessarily, but just the thing I could always draw. This feeling is somewhat related to how I feel about this symbol:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncarved.com\/static\/images\/MutedPosthorn.png\" alt=\"Crying of Lot 49\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shrouded in mystery, it&#8217;s something that could be uncovered with a little effort, and for some reason, I feel I need to come up with something similar. I&#8217;ve been using sheep in a box for my letterboxing monikor:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2042\/1922322796_779ef0d7e6_o.jpg\" alt=\"sheep in a box\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but I think I&#8217;d like something less abstract. Nothing says &#8216;cheers, friend!&#8217; like a funny face. Or a robot bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished catching up with one of my favorite blogs, The Sneeze. I got to read the saga of The Face (read it here). Basically, Steve&#8217;s dad always drew this face on cards, birthday cakes, etc. Steve interviewed his father about it, and after blogging about it, found out where it originally came from. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-random-sonya-fact"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}