{"id":14384,"date":"2016-05-06T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:04:06","slug":"you-could-almost-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/you-could-almost-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"You Could Almost Do Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elischiff.com\/blog\/2016\/4\/27\/do-anything-iii\">Eli Schiff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.elischiff.com\/blog\/2016\/4\/27\/do-anything-iii\">\n<p>Several questions present themselves. Firstly, why do modernist designers feel the need to justify obvious (or should I say opaque) abstractions by appealing to metaphorical significance, where no metaphor still exists? This charade certainly fools no one, except perhaps other designers and obsequious journalists.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A second, more important, question emerges&#8211;how can non-designers have confidence in minimalists&rsquo; designs if the designers themselves so clearly don&rsquo;t. How can there be any integrity to glean from&#8211;when the designs so readily fail by their designers&rsquo; own criteria for judgment?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Schiff: Several questions present themselves. Firstly, why do modernist designers feel the need to justify obvious (or should I say opaque) abstractions by appealing to metaphorical significance, where no metaphor still exists? This charade certainly fools no one, except perhaps other designers and obsequious journalists. [&#8230;] A second, more important, question emerges&#8211;how can non-designers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,1277,37,219],"class_list":["post-14384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-logo","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14396,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions\/14396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}