{"id":1921,"date":"2013-09-11T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2013-09-11T00:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:19:46","slug":"an-x-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1921","title":{"rendered":"An x factor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging this trend (a couple years old by now but still worthy of appreciation) of collaborations marked with an <i>x<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxtransmedia.com\/\">TEDx Transmedia<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/monocle.com\/\">Monocle x Samsung<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/makr.com\/blog\/18-06-2013-14-28-01\/\">MAKR x Monster Children<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/stumptowncoffee.com\/stumptown-x-poler\/\">Stumptown x Poler<\/a>. It&#8217;s a bit hipstery, sure, but I like the implication that the collaboration isn&#8217;t just <i>A + B,<\/i> but <i>A x B<\/i> &#150; a <i>multiplication<\/i> of the awesomeness of both elements. I totally want to do this for the byline for a co-authored book. <i>[Your name here] x Geoffrey Long.<\/i> Doesn&#8217;t that have a neat ring to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging this trend (a couple years old by now but still worthy of appreciation) of collaborations marked with an x. TEDx Transmedia. Monocle x Samsung. MAKR x Monster Children. Stumptown x Poler. It&#8217;s a bit hipstery, sure, but I like the implication that the collaboration isn&#8217;t just A + B, but A x B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-uZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}