{"id":189,"date":"2008-01-24T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-01-24T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:23:00","slug":"january-23-national-handwriting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/january-23-national-handwriting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"January 23 &#8211; National Handwriting Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R5f2uBSy67I\/AAAAAAAAASQ\/DkWHNM7u8eM\/s1600-h\/01_23_handwriting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R5f2uBSy67I\/AAAAAAAAASQ\/DkWHNM7u8eM\/s200\/01_23_handwriting.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158863168657877938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In honor of National Handwriting Day, I&#8217;ve gone through various boxes of memorabilia to create a survey of my handwriting throughout the various stages of my life.  I&#8217;m amused.<\/p>\n<p>I like to say that I got into calligraphy out of sheer stubbornness: In elementary school the only subject in which I couldn&#8217;t get an A was &#8230; handwriting. I&#8217;ve been working on it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on the thumbnail at left you&#8217;ll see my handwriting at 5-1\/2, 11, 16, 24, and 42. The big gap in there could possibly be filled only by locating the children&#8217;s artwork with my explanatory labels on it; the years of rearing young children evidently didn&#8217;t provide much free time for longhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of National Handwriting Day, I&#8217;ve gone through various boxes of memorabilia to create a survey of my handwriting throughout the various stages of my life. I&#8217;m amused. I like to say that I got into calligraphy out of sheer stubbornness: In elementary school the only subject in which I couldn&#8217;t get an A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/january-23-national-handwriting-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 23 &#8211; National Handwriting Day&#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-189","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\/p9bHT3-33","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}