{"id":1007,"date":"2009-10-09T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2009-10-10T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T13:58:06","slug":"mysterious-found-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Found Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/slip.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1019\" title=\"slip\" src=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/slip-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"slip\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/slip-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/slip-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/slip.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(click on image for larger size)<\/p>\n<p>I found this slip of paper in a 1907 book called &#8216;Historia Patria&#8217; from Mexico. I had been curious about what language the note was written in and asked about it a few years ago when I was blogging on Myspace (gasp!). A friend did his best to try and make out the script and used this nifty website to try and determine the language. <a href=\"www.unicode.org\/charts\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My theory now is that is was written by someone who was trying to copy letters out of a book and probably was not accustomed to using a writing instrument. I can imagine someone picking this book up and attempting to write without instruction. The strange gnarled letters was their interpretation of what they saw on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click on image for larger size) I found this slip of paper in a 1907 book called &#8216;Historia Patria&#8217; from Mexico. I had been curious about what language the note was written in and asked about it a few years ago when I was blogging on Myspace (gasp!). A friend did his best to try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mysterious Found Note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}