{"id":36283,"date":"2005-03-03T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/03\/03\/raymonds-random-walk-from-swedish-designers-to-mr-monkey\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T07:01:00","slug":"raymonds-random-walk-from-swedish-designers-to-mr-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050303-00\/?p=36283","title":{"rendered":"Raymond&#039;s random walk, from Swedish designers to Mr. Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My random walk began at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/\">Svenska Dagbladet<\/a> and the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svd.se\/dynamiskt\/kultur\/did_9179146.asp\"> Svensk designer uppr&ouml;r skottar<\/a>, about Swedish designer Johanna Larson whose T-shirt depicting the traffic-cone-wearing Duke of Wellington has sparked a debate in the city.\n The article mentions that the tradition of placing a traffic cone on the head of the Duke is twenty years old, and my search for further information on this ongoing prank led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leyton.org\/\"> Richard Leyton<\/a>&#8216;s musings on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leyton.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/a_permanent_cone_for_wellington.html\"> whether the traffic cone should be glued in place permanently<\/a>.\n At the end of his entry, he links to the wonderful web site of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk\/\"> Mr Monkey<\/a> and in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk\/monkey\/trips\/trip1305.htm\"> Mr Monkey&#8217;s visit to the statue to see it for himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> The Mr Monkey web site is one of the hidden treasures of the Internet. Sure, it may not be entirely original, but Mr Monkey himself is so goofy-looking, the pictures are for the most part quite well-composed, and the subtitles are the icing on the cake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My random walk began at Svenska Dagbladet and the article Svensk designer uppr&ouml;r skottar, about Swedish designer Johanna Larson whose T-shirt depicting the traffic-cone-wearing Duke of Wellington has sparked a debate in the city. The article mentions that the tradition of placing a traffic cone on the head of the Duke is twenty years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-36283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My random walk began at Svenska Dagbladet and the article Svensk designer uppr&ouml;r skottar, about Swedish designer Johanna Larson whose T-shirt depicting the traffic-cone-wearing Duke of Wellington has sparked a debate in the city. The article mentions that the tradition of placing a traffic cone on the head of the Duke is twenty years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}