{"id":479,"date":"2009-02-15T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-02-15T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:46:49","slug":"on-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"On Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I was taught script handwriting in grade school. We did the exercises with loops and such, and I learned to write legibly. I&#8217;ve lost a lot of that, mostly due to hurrying when I write. I have long admired people with elegant handwriting, though, and wished to improve my own.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent search for handwriting tutorials, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/books\/palmer_method_1935\/palmerMethod_1935_index.html\">a book on the Palmer method<\/a>, which seems to match the way I was taught, although this has much more depth than I recall from my lessons.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe that you could use this book in schools today, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/books\/palmer_method_1935\/palmerMethod_1935_page65.html\">The exercise at the top of this page<\/a> would probably get any young man sent for counseling, if not suspended or expelled. I&#8217;m not certain what would happen to a young woman caught doing the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I was taught script handwriting in grade school. We did the exercises with loops and such, and I learned to write legibly. I&#8217;ve lost a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}