{"id":811,"date":"2009-07-31T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:40:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:40:59","slug":"ben-franklin-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/811","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin &#8216;can do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/30\/can-do\/\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/BLOGimages\/FRANKLIN.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click the image to read Maira Kalman&#8217;s ode to Franklin<\/em> &nbsp;. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin was fun. So much fun, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmuseum.org\">International Printing Museum<\/a> has on staff the incredible Phil Soinski.<\/p>\n<p>Soinski portrays Franklin as part of their educational services; and does such a fantastic job, I learned more about Hot Type in one hour with &#8216;Ben&#8217; than reading thru whatever pile of type books are currently stacked on my desk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmuseum.org\"\"target=\"_blank\">Drop by the museum, set up a tour, take a class<\/a> \u2013\u00a0their programs, their dedication to the craft of printing can be contagious. <\/p>\n<p>And illustrator Maira Kalman gives us a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/30\/can-do\/\"\"target=\"_blank\">really cool things to know about ultramegasuperinventor Ben Franklin<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp; . . . .<\/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=\"Ben Franklin 'can do'\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/811\"  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>Drop by the museum, set up a tour, take a class \u2013\u00a0their programs, their dedication to the craft of printing can be contagious. And illustrator Maira Kalman gives us a bunch of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,54,49,51],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-illustration","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}