{"id":11628,"date":"2010-01-23T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:44:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:44:48","slug":"alphabet-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/11628","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/DanielMendezHollyWickland.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djmisc.com\/2007\/11\/post-7.html\"target=\"_blank\">evolved<\/a> into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has <a href=\"http:\/\/desktoppub.about.com\/cs\/typeanatomy\/g\/ear.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an ear.<\/a> It&#8217;s often drawn <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3185\/3055222749_da379be778_m.jpg\"target=\"_blank\">just like a dog&#8217;s ear.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that should have ears. <\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Alphabet ears\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/11628\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It evolved into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has an ear. It&#8217;s often drawn just like a dog&#8217;s ear. Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49,127,53,120],"tags":[126,67,58,122],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-fonts","category-thoughts","category-typography","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11828,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}