{"id":64830,"date":"2017-10-17T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64830"},"modified":"2017-10-17T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:22:14","slug":"meet-the-new-tree-same-as-the-old-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64830","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New Tree; Same As The Old Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eagan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/south-metro-news-briefs-burnsville-moves-up-start-of-city-council-meetings-an-hour\/450865633\/\">has a new city logo<\/a>:\u00a0 a more expensive version of the old city logo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[The old] symbol, a more realistic green tree outlined in black, was in use since 2004. It was sometimes compared to a stalk of broccoli.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cityofeagan.com\/images\/logos\/EaganLogo.png?59d63edb\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eagan&#8217;s new, non-cruciferous-vegetable-looking logo. $75K. Not sure if that included the new city font.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">A prominent graphic designer who lives in Eagan, Allan Peters, designed the updated logo for $75,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But practice makes perfect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city is on its fourth logo since the 1970s, each featuring what the city called a \u201cstrong, independent tree.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what happens when a formerly sensible suburb gets overrun by DFLers fleeing DFL policies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, but who bring their DFL politics with &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagan has a new city logo:\u00a0 a more expensive version of the old city logo: [The old] symbol, a more realistic green tree outlined in black, was in use since 2004. It was sometimes compared to a stalk of broccoli. A prominent graphic designer who lives in Eagan, Allan Peters, designed the updated logo for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64831,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64830\/revisions\/64831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}