{"id":743,"date":"2013-08-13T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T03:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2013-08-14T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:53:45","slug":"mayor-berke-mandates-all-visible-chattanooga-text-be-converted-to-chatype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/08\/13\/mayor-berke-mandates-all-visible-chattanooga-text-be-converted-to-chatype\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Berke mandates all visible Chattanooga text be converted to Chatype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement of making Chatype the office typeface of Chattanooga, Mayor Berke issued a mandate that all visible text within the Chattanooga city limits must be converted to the new font.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks a historic day in the history of Chattanooga, and even the world,\u201d exclaimed Berke. \u201cWe must go Chaballs out and do this thing right!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/242533561_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-744\" alt=\"242533561_640\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/242533561_640-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/242533561_640-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/242533561_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Chatype, which began as a Kickstarter crowd-funded project early last year, gained support worldwide for its uniqueness, being the first project of its kind. Many Chattanooga neighboring cities, such as Rossville, have tried such projects, but failed when the finished products produced botched versions of Comic Sans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have created a new Chatype task force to vigorously and aggressively work around the clock toward the completion of the conversion,\u201d explained Berke. \u201cThey will not stop until every street sign, graffiti tag, National cemetery headstone and manhole cover has been outfitted with Chatype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect for all citizens of our great city to comply with the new mandate,\u201d said Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd. \u201cThose naysayers who fail to follow orders could be met with hefty fines, jail time or even have their MacBooks taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement of making Chatype the office typeface of Chattanooga, Mayor Berke issued a mandate that all visible text within the Chattanooga city limits must be converted to the new font. \u201cToday marks a historic day in the history of Chattanooga, and even the world,\u201d exclaimed Berke. \u201cWe must go Chaballs out and do this thing right!\u201d Chatype, which began as a Kickstarter crowd-funded project early last year, gained support worldwide for its uniqueness, being the first project of its kind. Many Chattanooga neighboring cities, such as Rossville, have tried such projects, but failed when the finished products produced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}