{"id":1487,"date":"2010-09-15T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:39:56","slug":"daily-drop-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/09\/15\/daily-drop-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Drop Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2915.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Daily Drop Cap\" alt=\"Daily Drop Cap\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2914.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Daily Drop Cap\" alt=\"Daily Drop Cap\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2913.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"Daily Drop Cap\" alt=\"Daily Drop Cap\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of things I wish I saw more of on the web was the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Initial\">drop caps<\/a> in articles &#8212; just like those you see in magazines (read the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Initial\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> to see different usages of initials in articles). I liken drop caps to an opening act of a show &#8212; decorative in nature and lovely to look at, it captivates and draws you into the rest of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Well I think my wish did come true, thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydropcap.com\">Daily Drop Cap<\/a>. Imagine the possibilities! Blog posts no longer need to be boring in nature when you use one of these lovely drop caps. Think fun, colors and pizzazz when you are writing up that next article, and you have <a href=\"http:\/\/jessicahische.com\/\">Jessica Hische<\/a>, a typographer and illustrator (whose work was on Ammo magazine &#8212; see <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/07\/19\/review-ammo-mr-spoqui-22\">previously<\/a>) to thank for spicing up your screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Daily Drop Cap\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/09\/15\/daily-drop-cap\/\" aria-label=\"More on Daily Drop Cap\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30636,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/30636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}