{"id":279,"date":"2005-10-02T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:03:43","slug":"card_size_stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/card_size_stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Size Standards, People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fun looking for ways to improve existing designs, critique them, look at solutions and drawbacks, etc. Then there&#8217;re the designs that warrant an immediate reaction. I want to start cataloguing instances that illicit a teeth grinding &#8220;What the Hell People!?&#8221;.<br \/>\nFirst up this week: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanartgallery.bc.ca\/home.cfm\">Vancouver Art Gallery<\/a> membership card, which I recently purchased and received in the mail and cannot put in my wallet. It is one of those <strong>damn cards that is too wide<\/strong>. What the hell?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"vag_card.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/vag_card.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"332\" class=\"noborder\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A VAG member card (top) and the standard (below).<\/em><br \/>\nMy old-school <a href=\"http:\/\/mec.ca\">Mountain Equipment Co-op<\/a> membership, and my mini birth certificate, suffer from this, too. They don&#8217;t fit in my wallet&#8217;s slots. If I shove them in the main money compartment the wallet doesn&#8217;t fold in half properly, or the card sticks out the side for rapid wear-and-tear.<br \/>\nCards (business, credit, debit, ID, etc.) are be about 9.5 x 6.5 centimetres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fun looking for ways to improve existing designs, critique them, look at solutions and drawbacks, etc. Then there&#8217;re the designs that warrant an immediate reaction. I want to start cataloguing instances that illicit a teeth grinding &#8220;What the Hell People!?&#8221;. First up this week: The Vancouver Art Gallery membership card, which I recently purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}