{"id":195,"date":"2013-03-28T03:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-03-28T03:58:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:58:59","slug":"practicing-my-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/03\/28\/practicing-my-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing my Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/lessons_cursive.php\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/lessons_cursive.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ames&#8217; Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship<\/a>, Daniel T. Ames, Author and Pulisher, 1884.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m following the above lessons to get better handwriting. I&#8217;ve been working on my lowercase letters for the last few days. I normally scribble when I write; as a calligrapher, I could do better than that. This is with a ball point pen on ordinary bond paper. Guidelines were on another paper, illuminated from underneath to use them. This is not calligraphy, but could easily be included in such a piece, especially a certificate, or a love poem. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/handwriting-03-27-2013-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196\" alt=\"Practicing My Handwriting\" src=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/handwriting-03-27-2013-600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/handwriting-03-27-2013-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/handwriting-03-27-2013-600-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Practicing My Handwriting<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ames&#8217; Guide to Self-Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship, Daniel T. Ames, Author and Pulisher, 1884. I&#8217;m following the above lessons to get better handwriting. I&#8217;ve been working on my lowercase letters for the last few days. I normally scribble &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2013\/03\/28\/practicing-my-handwriting\/\">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":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-calligraphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}