{"id":331,"date":"2012-09-24T05:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-09-24T05:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T10:22:21","slug":"handwriting-of-our-forefathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/handwriting-of-our-forefathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwriting of our Forefathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close look at the handwriting, even of Monroe&#8217;s, is closer to italic than what many consider traditional. Notice the <strong>r<\/strong>&#8216;s; they are the italic form. Also remember the amount of letter writing from that time, the need to write rapidly, and WOW, they wrote with a quill!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/blog-and-community\/posts\/good-bad-and-ugly-look-penmanship<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Handwriting in America<\/em>, Tamara Plakins Thornton notes that there was a hierarchy in handwriting amongst early Americans, and these men were at the top!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close look at the handwriting, even of Monroe&#8217;s, is closer to italic than what many consider traditional. Notice the r&#8216;s; they are the italic form. Also remember the amount of letter writing from that time, the need to write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/handwriting-of-our-forefathers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-ages","category-cursive","category-education","category-older-students-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}