{"id":23151,"date":"2015-04-01T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2015-04-01T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T23:48:11","slug":"george-p-bush-bans-comic-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23151","title":{"rendered":"George P. Bush Bans Comic Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those rare <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@txglo\/commissioner-bush-announces-agencywide-ban-on-comic-sans-2ddaef347091\">April Fools jokes<\/a> that works as both a joke <i.and<\/i> as sound policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In tandem with his plan to foster technological innovation at the Texas General Land Office, Commissioner George P. Bush today announced an agencywide ban on the use of the font Comic Sans in all agency documents and correspondence:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs land commissioner, I am committed to making the GLO a technological leader in state government. While this unrefined font is appropriate for early childhood instruction in our Texas schools, the use of Comic Sans is not befitting when conducting business on key matters concerning the state of Texas. Comic Sans has no place at an agency positioning itself as a technological pioneer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the tell a bit further down:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCurrent agencywide substitute font recommendations are Helvetica, Times New Roman, or even Arial,\u201d Elam said. \u201cAny of the standard ones really. Except Papyrus. It\u2019s terribad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Comic-Sans.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Comic-Sans.png\" alt=\"Comic Sans\" width=\"556\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Comic-Sans.png 556w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Comic-Sans-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a>+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those rare April Fools jokes that works as both a joke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":35,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[1890,2685,1871,2686,2861],"class_list":["post-23151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-uncategorized","tag-april-fools","tag-comic-sans","tag-george-p-bush","tag-terribad","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}