{"id":35488,"date":"2020-02-27T05:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35488"},"modified":"2020-02-27T05:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:14:53","slug":"noeffort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/27\/noeffort\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the process of handwriting is no effort at all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Masgrimes_Archive_Bailey_Method_1929\/mode\/2up\">Learning Everyday Penmanship<\/a> in the 1920s. Quite a craft, it appears, requiring a 90-page how-to manual with lessons!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penmanship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penmanship.jpg?w=245\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Lovecraft&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the process of handwriting is no effort at all unless one aims for great legibility &amp; ornamentation. The reason moderns think handwriting is hard, is that they have never practiced it enough to get used to it.&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft, <em>Selected Letters<\/em> III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Everyday Penmanship in the 1920s. Quite a craft, it appears, requiring a 90-page how-to manual with lessons! According to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/27\/noeffort\/\">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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}