{"id":4222,"date":"2011-07-07T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:33:23","slug":"basic-human-write-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/07\/basic-human-write-sic\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic human write (sic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4224\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/write.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4224\" title=\"write\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/write.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Try this on a laptop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox59.com\/news\/wxin-cursive-writing-schools-no-longer-required-to-teach-cursive-beginning-this-fall-20110630,0,7533627.story\">A school in Indiana<\/a> is going to stop teaching cursive script aka writing. They are abolishing the art of hand writing and just going for the keyboard skills. Well that\u2019s a turn up for the book. Or should I say the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is nooooooooooooo!<\/p>\n<p>How do they do a shopping list?<br \/>\nWrite a note to a friend?<br \/>\nLeave a note for the plumber?<\/p>\n<p>Jot down a song they hear on the radio?<\/p>\n<p>A line from a favourite poem or book?<\/p>\n<p>A date to meet someone?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I am a great believer in the joys of the keyboard. God knows I use one every day until it is steaming hot and when I do write manually I find my writing skills are somewhat rusty and\u00a0 to be honest my writing these days is appalling but I can still do it.<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about your kids not being taught how to write?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a basic human right, write, rite. Och you know what I mean. It&#8217;s not right. Write. Rite.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school in Indiana is going to stop teaching cursive script aka writing. They are abolishing the art of hand writing and just going for&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,83,1161,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}