{"id":13418,"date":"2013-05-12T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=13418"},"modified":"2013-05-12T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:05:15","slug":"a-pair-of-urban-ediglyphs-capitol-hill-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2013\/05\/12\/a-pair-of-urban-ediglyphs-capitol-hill-seattle-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Urban Ediglyphs &#8211; Capitol Hill &#8211; Seattle, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/washington\/seattle-urban-ediglyph-capitol-hill.jpg?resize=580%2C389\" width=\"580\" height=\"389\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/washington\/seattle-wa-urban-ediglyph02.jpg?resize=580%2C389\" width=\"580\" height=\"389\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I call the interplay between painted text on brickface and graffiti\/streetart an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wikispaces.com\/Fading+Ad+Vocabulary\" target=\"_blank\">urban ediglyph<\/a>.&#8221; The etymology of this word comes from the words <em>ediface<\/em>&#8211; an imposing building (in this case a building wall) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petroglyph\" target=\"_blank\">petroglyph<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/em>ancient rock engravings left behind by earlier indigenous cultures. Often the earlier fading ad is somewhat indecipherable but takes on a newer meaning with the addition of the streetart or urban tagging. Here are two from Seattle that I thought merited a blog posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call the interplay between painted text on brickface and graffiti\/streetart an &#8220;urban ediglyph.&#8221; The etymology of this word comes from the words ediface&#8211; an imposing building (in this case a building wall) and petroglyph\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0ancient rock engravings left behind by earlier indigenous cultures. Often the earlier fading ad is somewhat indecipherable but takes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1361,1575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle-wa","category-urban-ediglyphs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-3uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13419,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions\/13419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}