{"id":240,"date":"2011-01-29T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=240"},"modified":"2019-04-09T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:49:12","slug":"pig-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/pig-calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"pig calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not depicting pigs, I should say. Look at this example from a calligraphy manual from 1597:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ds.lib.berkeley.edu\/PlimptonMS302_20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-681 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NNC-RBML.7171B_ed.jpg\" alt=\"pig-script\" width=\"796\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NNC-RBML.7171B_ed.jpg 796w, https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NNC-RBML.7171B_ed-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NNC-RBML.7171B_ed-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like gibberish or code, but then your eye gets accustomed to the nudge in the middle of each letter, and it becomes readable. Voila, ig-pay alligraphy-cay.<\/p>\n<p>(The above image was copied from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-scriptorium.org\/\">Digital Scriptorium<\/a> of Columbia University Libraries \/ UC Berkeley (Google them. It&#8217;s an awesome site.) and is \u00a9 Columbia University. I shouldn&#8217;t be using it like this, but look at it. Just look at it.)<\/p>\n<p><!-- from http:\/\/app.cul.columbia.edu:8080\/     exist\/scriptorium\/individual\/     NNC-RBML-1108.xml --> <!-- link dead 4\/2019, but found image again and added current link --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not depicting pigs, I should say. Look at this example from a calligraphy manual from 1597: Looks like gibberish or code, but then your eye gets accustomed to the nudge in the middle of each letter, and it becomes readable. Voila, ig-pay alligraphy-cay. (The above image was copied from the Digital Scriptorium of Columbia University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[14,22,41,53],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","category-observation","tag-archives","tag-cool-stuff","tag-manuscripts","tag-ramblings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}