{"id":1663,"date":"2013-06-01T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2013-06-01T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:13:59","slug":"the-fortunate-w-a-history-of-the-star-wars-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"The Fortunate W: A History of the Star Wars Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Star Wars Logo underwent a slow and evolutionary development, <a href=\"http:\/\/alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/anatomy-of-logo-star-wars.html\">lovingly traced out here, with much documentary evidence, by Alex Jay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From this first attempt featuring an early image of Han Solo:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.19-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.19-AM.png?resize=318%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-06-01 at 6.47.19 AM\" width=\"318\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.19-AM.png?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.19-AM.png?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.19-AM.png?resize=300%2C379&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To this final version:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.48-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.48-AM.png?resize=463%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-06-01 at 6.47.48 AM\" width=\"463\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.48-AM.png?w=463&amp;ssl=1 463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.47.48-AM.png?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through (among other iterations) this first-version-of-the-final-version:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.48.16-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.48.16-AM.png?resize=370%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-06-01 at 6.48.16 AM\" width=\"370\" height=\"213\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.48.16-AM.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-01-at-6.48.16-AM.png?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never has a W been so successfully, so fortunatley normalized, in the history of W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Star Wars Logo underwent a slow and evolutionary development, lovingly traced out here, with much documentary evidence, by Alex Jay. From this first attempt featuring an early image of Han Solo: To this final version: Through (among other iterations) this first-version-of-the-final-version: Never has a W been so successfully, so fortunatley normalized, in the history of W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}