{"id":13502,"date":"2013-10-17T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:18:55","slug":"holy-war-on-dog-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/holy-war-on-dog-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy War on Dog Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13504\" alt=\"Thou_shalt_not_poop\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Thou_shalt_not_poop.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Thou_shalt_not_poop.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Thou_shalt_not_poop-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13503\" alt=\"Hold_close_thy_loved\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hold_close_thy_loved.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hold_close_thy_loved.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hold_close_thy_loved-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13506\" alt=\"Collect_what_you_receive\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Collect_what_you_receive.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Collect_what_you_receive.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Collect_what_you_receive-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13505\" alt=\"The_Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The_Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine-.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The_Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine-.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The_Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine--300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cathedral of Saint John the Divine was facing a plague of pooches whose owners wouldn&#8217;t pick up after them, but instead of banning the beasts, the church elders turned to New York design firm Pentagram* for a scriptural solution&#8230; that would preach the values of respect, fellowship, and proper poop removal etiquette. Fine tuning the balance between sass and sacrilege was the key challenge&#8230; the designs were blessed by the church\u2019s leadership and have become so popular that they\u2019re considering enshrining them in a place of great honor \u2014 the gift shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">*Pentagram partner Michael Bierut had refreshed the church\u2019s identity in 2009, creating a minimal system that leveraged a modernized blackletter font, bright colors, and cheeky copy to help spread the good word to jaded New Yorkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/10\/this-nyc-church-is-waging-a-holy-war-on-dog-poop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">source<\/span><\/a>) Thanks to my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrianjkshum\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Adrian Shum<\/span><\/a> for the link.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York \u201cThe Cathedral of Saint John the Divine was facing a plague of pooches whose owners wouldn&#8217;t pick up after them, but instead of banning the beasts, the church elders turned to New York design firm Pentagram* for a scriptural solution&#8230; that would preach the values of respect, fellowship, and proper poop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}