{"id":12855,"date":"2021-01-15T08:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2021-01-15T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:33:42","slug":"handwriting-as-a-memory-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/15\/handwriting-as-a-memory-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwriting as a Memory Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A long-time friend wrote a short inscription in one of his works of fiction that he recently sent to me. I have not seen him in over thirty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always thought his handwriting was somewhat distinct and unique. Seeing it took me back to that time when we were kids and got me to thinking about things I had not thought of in years&#8211;memories that seeing pictures of him for some reason did not bring back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have pieces of a deceased relative&#8217;s handwriting, consider using it as a memory prompt. Images can be powerful memory joggers. And if you do not know whose handwriting it is, consider asking family members if they know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-time friend wrote a short inscription in one of his works of fiction that he recently sent to me. I have not seen him in over thirty years. I always thought his handwriting was somewhat distinct and unique. Seeing it took me back to that time when we were kids and got me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}