{"id":16295,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=16295"},"modified":"2010-05-09T03:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:39:24","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16295","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the Typewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O7MU1ixDvF4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O7MU1ixDvF4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an odd little video about this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typewriter\" target=\"_blank\">19th century invention<\/a> that put metal type in the hands of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>And<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an excellent resource: Professor Richard Polt&#8217;s original <a href=\"http:\/\/site.xavier.edu\/polt\/typewriters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Classic Typewriter Page<\/a> &#8211; live since 1995. Even answers that age old question, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/site.xavier.edu\/polt\/typewriters\/tw-faq.html#q12\"target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Why doesn&#8217;t my typewriter have a numeral 1?&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site.xavier.edu\/polt\/typewriters\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FlyingOliver.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Polt&#8217;s World-Famous Flying Oliver<\/em><\/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=\"A Brief History of the Typewriter\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16295\"  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>Here&#8217;s an odd little video about this 19th century invention that put metal type in the hands of the general public. And Here&#8217;s an excellent resource: Professor Richard Polt&#8217;s original Classic Typewriter Page &#8211; live since 1995. Even answers that age old question, &#8216;Why doesn&#8217;t my typewriter have a numeral 1?&#8217; Polt&#8217;s World-Famous Flying Oliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,49],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-16295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-education","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295","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=16295"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16482,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295\/revisions\/16482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}