{"id":150,"date":"2012-08-05T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=150"},"modified":"2018-01-08T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T04:16:02","slug":"keeping-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/150","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWoodblock printing has been said to have reached Europe around 1400. Thirty years after that, intaglio printing emerged as an alternative technique, and in the 1450s the first mechanical printing presses were in use. From the outset, playing-cards seem to have been among the stock-in-trade of these processes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Trevor Denning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to matchbooks, ticket stubs, crash numbering, tea-bag tabs, chopstick wrappers, and produce stickers, playing-cards hold a distinct visual fascination for me. I would never think to ruin an intact set of cards, but always jump at the opportunity to secure an \u201corphan.\u201d Introduced into Europe through Arab sources, the centuries-old history of these gaming aids provide an interesting glimpse into the evolution of printing, design, advertising, gender roles, and our ever-ticklish relationship with power.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_Keeping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dixon_Keeping-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"Keeping Score by J A Dixon\" title=\"Keeping Score by J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"327\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 360px; margin-bottom: 7px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Keeping Score<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5 x 5 inches<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 7px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: #CC3333; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">\u2022&nbsp; S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWoodblock printing has been said to have reached Europe around 1400. Thirty years after that, intaglio printing emerged as an alternative technique, and in the 1450s the first mechanical printing presses were in use. From the outset, playing-cards seem to have been among the stock-in-trade of these processes.\u201d \u2014Trevor Denning In addition to matchbooks, ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}