{"id":7939,"date":"2015-10-15T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T21:30:51","slug":"event-the-art-of-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/event-the-art-of-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | &#8220;The Art of Handwriting&#8221; at the John Hay Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/10\/orwell2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7955 size-medium\" title=\"Orwell bookplate\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/10\/orwell2-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"orwell2\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-100x126.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-150x189.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-200x252.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-300x378.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2-450x566.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/orwell2.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/campus-life\/events\/family-weekend\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Weekend<\/a> with a visit to the renovated John Hay Library and take the graphology challenge, &#8220;The Art of Handwriting&#8221;. Staff will provide copies of items from the collections for you to transcribe.<\/p>\n<p>Can you still read cursive?\u00a0 Try deciphering manuscripts written by Lincoln, Orwell, Lovecraft, and others.\u00a0 The originals will be on display. General tours of the library also will be available. See the display of miniature soldiers and the exhibit: <em>Influence of Anxiety: Lovecraft, Bloch, Barlow et. al.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, October 16, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Family Weekend with a visit to the renovated John Hay Library and take the graphology challenge, &#8220;The Art of Handwriting&#8221;. Staff will provide copies of items from the collections for you to transcribe. Can you still read cursive?\u00a0 Try deciphering manuscripts written by Lincoln, Orwell, Lovecraft, and others.\u00a0 The originals will be on display. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/event-the-art-of-handwriting\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | &#8220;The Art of Handwriting&#8221; at the John Hay Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}