{"id":31,"date":"2010-02-11T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjrecord.wordpress.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:52:24","slug":"calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-02-01_007.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19  \" title=\"Karah, Chinese Calligraphy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2010-02-01_007.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week we had a Chinese calligraphy lesson and tonight we had an italic hand lesson, both were really great. I really enjoyed tonights lesson despite my horrible handwriting.\u00a0So far we&#8217;ve gotten off to a fairly slow start in this class. Our first major learning assignment\u00a0involves learning to draw the Roman letterforms correctly by hand.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit it&#8217;s definitely not\u00a0my favorite assignment,\u00a0but I would seriously love it if\u00a0I could get to the point where I could do it well.<br \/>\nHandwriting\u00a0and drawing have never been strong points of mine. I doodled a lot\u00a0as a kid and in high school when I had tons of time on my hands, but\u00a0once I started working and going to college I lost my motivation. I would seriously love to improve my handwriting and drawing, but finding the time to practice is almost impossible due to my crazy workload.<br \/>\nHopefully I&#8217;ll start to wrap multiple projects up somewhat soon so I can find time to practice.<br \/>\n-smitten with type-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we had a Chinese calligraphy lesson and tonight we had an italic hand lesson, both were really great. I really enjoyed tonights lesson despite my horrible handwriting.\u00a0So far we&#8217;ve gotten off to a fairly slow start in this class. Our first major learning assignment\u00a0involves learning to draw the Roman letterforms correctly by hand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}