{"id":18870,"date":"2019-04-29T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T11:46:52","slug":"swing-both-ways-nicely-subverted-street-sign-in-tottenham-court-road-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/swing-both-ways-nicely-subverted-street-sign-in-tottenham-court-road-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Both Ways &#8211; nicely subverted street sign in Tottenham Court Road, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18872\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/swing-both-ways-nicely-subverted-street-sign-in-tottenham-court-road-london\/swing-both-ways-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ELE-L29&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1556472831&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.58&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"swing-both-ways-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01.jpg\" alt=\"Swing Both Ways\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I loved this street sign on Tottenham Court Road that had been wittily subverted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18871\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/swing-both-ways-nicely-subverted-street-sign-in-tottenham-court-road-london\/swing-both-ways-02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ELE-L29&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1556475000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.58&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001566&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Swing Both Ways &amp;#8211; subverted street sign on Tottenham Court Road, London\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02.jpg\" alt=\"Swing Both Ways - subverted street sign on Tottenham Court Road, London\" width=\"620\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-02-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Posted up as a warning to pedestrians about road traffic work, the sign&#8217;s original message of &#8216;<em>Look Both Ways<\/em>&#8216; had been given another meaning altogether, thanks to the addition of the word &#8216;Swing&#8217; in an identical typeface. Nicely done!<\/p>\n<p>This version further down the road shows the original sign, albeit with the addition of a red Anarchy symbol and two &#8216;chaos!&#8217; stickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this street sign on Tottenham Court Road that had been wittily subverted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1765,194,17,193],"tags":[10,1195,190,809,476],"class_list":["post-18870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-photos","tag-soho","tag-street-photography","tag-tottenham-court-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/swing-both-ways-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4Um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}