{"id":25462,"date":"2011-02-03T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25462"},"modified":"2011-02-04T01:11:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:11:33","slug":"highbrow-to-lowbrow-the-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25462","title":{"rendered":"Highbrow to Lowbrow taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HiBrowLoBrow_L.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HiBrowLoBrow_S.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The first usage in print of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highbrow\" target=\"_blank\">highbrow<\/a> was recorded in 1884. The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a reporter for The Sun who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Lynes\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Lynes<\/a> famously satirized the concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middlebrow#Russell_Lynes.2C_Highbrow.2C_Lowbrow.2C_Middlebrow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Highbrow, Lowbrow and Middlebrow&#8217;<\/a> in an article published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/1949\/02\/0033383\" target=\"_blank\">Harper&#8217;s Magazine<\/a><\/em> in 1949. <\/p>\n<p>That same year, <em>Life<\/em> magazine published the chart (above) to sort out the particulars. Works as a nice supplement to my own <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25351\" target=\"_blank\">Taste chart.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the above image to view larger.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via Holly Hadley Agundes<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Highbrow to Lowbrow taste\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25462\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The first usage in print of highbrow was recorded in 1884. The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a reporter for The Sun who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads.&#8217; Russell Lynes famously satirized the concept of &#8216;Highbrow, Lowbrow and Middlebrow&#8217; in an article published in Harper&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25462"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25482,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25462\/revisions\/25482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}