{"id":944,"date":"2017-12-08T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/why-city-flags-may-be-the-worst-designed-thing\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:16:17","slug":"why-city-flags-may-be-the-worst-designed-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/why-city-flags-may-be-the-worst-designed-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you&#8217;ve never noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/ted.com\/talks\/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_the_worst_designed_thing_you_ve_never_noticed?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=tedspread--b'>Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you&#8217;ve never noticed<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>&ldquo;Roman Mars is obsessed with flags &ndash; and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don&rsquo;t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology &ndash; the study of flags &ndash; Mars reveals the five?&hellip; &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : Great TED talk.  Nice MetaFilter thread here: [http:\/\/ift.tt\/2y89vlE]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you&#8217;ve never noticed &ldquo;Roman Mars is obsessed with flags &ndash; and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don&rsquo;t have to be. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology &ndash; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/why-city-flags-may-be-the-worst-designed-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you&#8217;ve never noticed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fbshare","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}