{"id":2396,"date":"2009-04-16T22:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2016-05-17T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:57:18","slug":"chinese-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s home for a four day weekend.\u00a0 She needs the rest.\u00a0 I hope she will take it easy, though she wants to do garage sale related things.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what that means and I worry about her taking care of herself.<\/p>\n<p>I have a tour of China for Chinese language students from Central High tomorrow.\u00a0 I decided to go with the history of Chinese calligraphy and its five main styles.\u00a0 Part of why I&#8217;m doing this is that calligraphy is China&#8217;s highest art form and its appreciation influences all other forms of aesthetic judgment.\u00a0 That means I don&#8217;t have an inside view of what makes Chinese art tick unless I can better comprehend calligraphy.\u00a0 This is a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon Kate&#8217;s home for a four day weekend.\u00a0 She needs the rest.\u00a0 I hope she will take it easy, though she wants to do garage sale related things.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what that means and I worry about her taking care of herself. I have a tour of China for Chinese language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Calligraphy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,290],"tags":[1531,264],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia","tag-calligraphy","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41723,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/41723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}