{"id":45696,"date":"2014-10-08T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/a-plethora-of-patches-provoke-pondering.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:40:38","slug":"a-plethora-of-patches-provoke-pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/a-plethora-of-patches-provoke-pondering.html","title":{"rendered":"A Plethora of Patches Provoke Pondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s remarkable to me about this comic book advert of embroidered patches is how eclectic they are. There are recycling symbols, Black Power patches, Confederate flags, a Bicentennial logo, cartoon characters, automotive logos, peace signs, happy faces,ecology symbols, various rock group emblems, various counter-culture symbols, vapid slogans &#8212; there&#39;s no theme, just a dump of anything someone thought might sell to the audience.<\/p>\n<p>It was a simpler time in the 70s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/07\/dynamite-embroidered-cloth-pat.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OyjlIDDm_rzBH4pKQtC09NIesKWqOgBd2AlYbdS73Hoj5uXrmRM0E-R_ctloboBlB9Ix9X-dZwDtAlWBBdAlEKoyGj0iqR0eQyBhufZwsh0neQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/10\/07\/dynamite-embroidered-cloth-pat.html'>Dynamite embroidered cloth patches that tell it like it is<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nArtist Mitch O&#8217;Connell has posted his astonishingly large collection of 1970s embroidered patches. I hope somebody starts making them again!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/KKsQxnALxGs'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s remarkable to me about this comic book advert of embroidered patches is how eclectic they are. There are recycling symbols, Black Power patches, Confederate flags, a Bicentennial logo, cartoon characters, automotive logos, peace signs, happy faces,ecology symbols, various rock group emblems, various counter-culture symbols, vapid slogans &#8212; there&#39;s no theme, just a dump of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/a-plethora-of-patches-provoke-pondering.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Plethora of Patches Provoke Pondering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-clothing-and-fashion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11226,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/tis_trivia_matey.html","url_meta":{"origin":45696,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Tis Trivia, Matey!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-07 11:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"'Tis no longer Talk Like a Pirate Day ... but Uncle Cecil at the Straight Dope has the low-down on various pieces o' pirate\u00a0lore, such treasure maps, parrots, eye patches,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12535,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/potpourri_for_the_end_of.html","url_meta":{"origin":45696,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri for the End of March","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Mar-08 1:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't believe March is over. 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