{"id":170,"date":"2006-02-15T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T01:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=170"},"modified":"2019-12-28T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:41:00","slug":"the-end-of-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-end-of-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of handwriting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Guardian<\/em> this week, Stuart Jeffries asks whether writing by hand will become a lost art, as technology increasingly enables us to communicate without it.<\/p>\n<p>He passes on a bit of history along the way. For example, the Sumarian merchants invented a script 5000 years ago, using &#8220;a stylus and wet clay to record the ingredients for beer.&#8221; Notes Jeffries, &#8220;The endlessly inventive outpouring of human writing thus grew out of commercial necessity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that observation holds the secret to whether handwriting will die. Does it have, today, any commercial necessity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Guardian this week, Stuart Jeffries asks whether writing by hand will become a lost art, as technology increasingly enables us to communicate without it. He passes on a bit of history along the way. For example, the Sumarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-end-of-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":[5],"tags":[625,626,627],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-handwriting","tag-stuart-jeffries","tag-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5109,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}