{"id":176,"date":"2008-01-11T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-01-11T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:38:00","slug":"january-10-pointed-pen-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/january-10-pointed-pen-script\/","title":{"rendered":"January 10 &#8211; Pointed Pen Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R4bk4xux8-I\/AAAAAAAAAQo\/BrRpgRgtRSE\/s1600-h\/01_10_journal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R4bk4xux8-I\/AAAAAAAAAQo\/BrRpgRgtRSE\/s320\/01_10_journal.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154058487645467618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>One day a year is inadequate for World Literary Day, so I&#8217;m continuing the theme today.<\/p>\n<p>Pointed pen is not my first tool of choice in lettering. I&#8217;ve never had a class in pointed pen scripts &#8212; copperplate, engrossing, Spencerian, business hand, etc. &#8212; so what I know I&#8217;ve mostly picked up on my own &#8230; and mostly from the folks in <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Ornamental_Penmanship\/\">Ornamental Penmanship discussion group<\/a> at Yahoo. The resources available there are simply incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Broad-edged pens are more familiar to me. But I&#8217;ve just finished addressing 450 double-envelope wedding invitations in my own brand of pointed pen script, and it&#8217;s starting to feel a little more comfortable than usual. The shoulder, now, that&#8217;s not so comfortable at the moment &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a year is inadequate for World Literary Day, so I&#8217;m continuing the theme today. Pointed pen is not my first tool of choice in lettering. I&#8217;ve never had a class in pointed pen scripts &#8212; copperplate, engrossing, Spencerian, business hand, etc. &#8212; so what I know I&#8217;ve mostly picked up on my own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/january-10-pointed-pen-script\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 10 &#8211; Pointed Pen Script&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-lettering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-2Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}