{"id":6376,"date":"2012-10-23T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/cuneiform-is-one-of-the-earliest-forms-of-writing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:20:43","slug":"cuneiform-is-one-of-the-earliest-forms-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6376 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=6377'><img width=\"128\" height=\"85\" src=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_m9uf5h9td11rpiyaso1_5001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. It\u2019s about 5000 years old, and was the dominant written language in the Middle East (while the Egyptians were all hieroglyphics).\u00a0It was used for three millennia.<\/p>\n<p>For our digital convenience, it\u2019s been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/PDF\/U12000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">packaged into Unicode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nantel\/3248294609\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nantel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. It\u2019s about 5000 years old, and was the dominant written language in the Middle East (while the Egyptians were all hieroglyphics).\u00a0It was used for three millennia. For our digital convenience, it\u2019s been\u00a0packaged into Unicode. Photo by nantel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[65,1649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21941,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}