{"id":268,"date":"2012-05-01T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/217.199.187.190\/3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/\/?p=268"},"modified":"2025-01-19T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T08:09:12","slug":"the-ampersat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"The Ampersat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 640px;\">\n<p>I recently purchased some ampersats for use in my letterpress printing as unsurprisingly my second hand founts had none.<\/p>\n<p>Its interesting to consider that now the current trend for our old communication technology of letterpress has combined with the need to print our modern communication addresses requiring the recasting of these\u00a0symbols for their new communication role.<\/p>\n<p>The image is my 6pt ampersat photographed through a macro bellows and reversed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased some ampersats for use in my letterpress printing as unsurprisingly my second hand founts had none. Its interesting to consider that now the current trend for our old communication technology of letterpress has combined with the need to print our modern communication addresses requiring the recasting of these\u00a0symbols for their new communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dpixels.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}