{"id":2200,"date":"2014-01-15T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/15\/language-in-all-its-forms-from-poetry-to-cliche\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:54","slug":"language-in-all-its-forms-from-poetry-to-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/15\/language-in-all-its-forms-from-poetry-to-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Language in all its forms, from poetry to clich\u00e9, was a continual source of intrigue for Fischli\/Weiss. How to Work Better (1991) is a manifesto comprising 10 persuasive but empty sentences, each with the aim of improving workplace productivity and morale: \u201cKnow the problem\u201d; \u201cAccept change as inevitable.\u201d Fischli\/Weiss plucked these stock phrases from a factory in Thailand and painted them in large stencilled letters to cover the exterior of an office block in Oerlikon, Zurich, visible on the approach into the city centre by train from Zurich Airport.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2012\/apr\/30\/david-weiss\">David Weiss obituary | Art and design | theguardian.com<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language in all its forms, from poetry to clich\u00e9, was a continual source of intrigue for Fischli\/Weiss. How to Work Better (1991) is a manifesto comprising 10 persuasive but empty sentences, each with the aim of improving workplace productivity and morale: \u201cKnow the problem\u201d; \u201cAccept change as inevitable.\u201d Fischli\/Weiss plucked these stock phrases from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/15\/language-in-all-its-forms-from-poetry-to-cliche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}