{"id":6101,"date":"2011-09-13T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2011-09-13T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T05:01:54","slug":"day-255-a-series-of-created-ampersands-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/09\/13\/day-255-a-series-of-created-ampersands-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 255: A series of created ampersands #Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4484\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110912.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4484\" data-attachment-id=\"4484\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wpid-img_20120517_123251-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-img_20120517_123251.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wpid-img_20120517_123251\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-img_20120517_123251.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4484\" title=\"Ampersands\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110912.png?resize=315%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ampersands\" width=\"315\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ampersands<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[411,486,2073,532,599,717,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-6101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-inkscape","8":"tag-linux","9":"tag-mac-os-x","10":"tag-microsoft-windows","11":"tag-open-source","12":"tag-scalable-vector-graphics","13":"tag-tutorial-2","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1Ap","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6169,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/09\/20121209-a-stylized-ampersand-made-of-circles-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-design-typography-creativecommons\/","url_meta":{"origin":6101,"position":0},"title":"20121209: A stylized ampersand made of circles by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #design #typography #creativecommons","author":"lemsy","date":"2012-12-09","format":false,"excerpt":"Ampersands (&) are a beautiful typographic creation. 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