{"id":5514,"date":"2012-03-23T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:42:44","slug":"sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2012<\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Venne<\/p>\n<h3>Once upon a time, downtown Portland shimmered under the glow of graphic art.<\/h3>\n<p>Then a decree was declared across the land, and we took our billboards down. Some say it&#8217;s time to revisit the idea of commercial signage in an urban space. Others emphatically disagree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/SignLanguage.pdf\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5587\" title=\"Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sign.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sign-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2012<br \/>\nOnce upon a time, downtown Portland shimmered under the glow of graphic art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}