{"id":2752,"date":"2010-09-08T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2010-09-08T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:52:57","slug":"loony-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/loony-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Loony Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/loony_tunes.php\">Clinton Duncan<\/a> on the iTunes 10 icon:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/loony_tunes.php\"><p>Probably the most compelling argument against it is that most of Apple&rsquo;s icons are almost photo-realistic representations, of, well, <em>things<\/em>. But given iTunes current Swiss Army Knife-like functionality, good luck coming up with an object to represent everything it does. Amongst its Apple siblings, the cartoon-like clip art feel is certainly exacerbated, and the result is to cheapen the look of iTunes&mdash;almost as if it&rsquo;s a children&rsquo;s music learning program, and not the world&rsquo;s pre-eminent entertainment content application.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Duncan on the iTunes 10 icon: Probably the most compelling argument against it is that most of Apple&rsquo;s icons are almost photo-realistic representations, of, well, things. But given iTunes current Swiss Army Knife-like functionality, good luck coming up with an object to represent everything it does. Amongst its Apple siblings, the cartoon-like clip art [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","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=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}