{"id":27875,"date":"2011-06-07T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=27875"},"modified":"2011-06-04T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:04:01","slug":"andrews-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27875","title":{"rendered":"Andrews, 1934"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Andrews_Cyclist.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sybil_Andrews\" target=\"_blank\">Sybil Andrews&#8217;<\/a> <em>Speedway<\/em> (above) is a linotype print commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltmcollection.org\/roundel\/about\/detailedhistory.html?IXpage=2&#038;_IXSESSION_=J1geFdT6Nia#London%20Passenger%20Transport%20Board\" target=\"_blank\">London Passenger Transport Board<\/a> in 1934 to advertise what was a new spectator sport, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickbarrie.co.uk\/speedway\/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Speedway Racing.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The final piece &#8211; like the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/1676\">&#8216;keep calm&#8217;<\/a> poster &#8211; was never used for its intended purpose.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kraftgenie\/4547477153\/in\/set-72157624126494299\" target=\"_blank\">Gunther Stephan<\/a><\/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=\"Andrews, 1934\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27875\"  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>Sybil Andrews&#8217; Speedway (above) is a linotype print commissioned by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1934 to advertise what was a new spectator sport, Speedway Racing. The final piece &#8211; like the famous &#8216;keep calm&#8217; poster &#8211; was never used for its intended purpose. Found via Gunther Stephan Tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,50,54,49,51],"tags":[25,121,126,123],"class_list":["post-27875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","category-illustration","tag-avant-garde","tag-design","tag-education","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875","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=27875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27879,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions\/27879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}