{"id":5225,"date":"2014-10-15T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:59:06","slug":"transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5225","title":{"rendered":"Transformations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Christopher Ricks&#8217;s 1964 review of Marshall McLuhan&#8217;s <em>Understanding Media<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The style is a viscous fog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the 2003 MIT Press\u00a0anthology <em>The New Media Reader<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Ricks, in a typical reply, wrote that &#8220;the style is a vicious fog.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Google, 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vicious.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vicious.jpg?resize=364%2C41&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"vicious\" width=\"364\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vicious.jpg?w=364&amp;ssl=1 364w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vicious.jpg?resize=300%2C33&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Christopher Ricks&#8217;s 1964 review of Marshall McLuhan&#8217;s Understanding Media: The style is a viscous fog. From the 2003 MIT Press\u00a0anthology The New Media Reader: Christopher Ricks, in a typical reply, wrote that &#8220;the style is a vicious fog.&#8221; From Google, 2014:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}