{"id":1413,"date":"2015-08-18T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-08-18T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:25:51","slug":"the-mystical-writing-pad-wsj-august-18-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/18\/the-mystical-writing-pad-wsj-august-18-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystical Writing Pad &#8211; WSJ, August 18, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Battles\u2019s \u201cPalimpsest: A History of the Written Word\u201d is in part an explanation of how it was possible for \u201ca craft so sophisticated and cognitively demanding to knit itself securely into our quotidian ways.\u201d To tell the story of the history of writing, the author, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, draws on evolutionary psychology, anthropology, linguistics and old-fashioned story telling. This fascinating exploration of the evolution of writing shows how, despite radical technological changes, the practice maintains its atavistic mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-mystical-writing-pad-1439586681\">The Mystical Writing Pad &#8211; WSJ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Battles\u2019s \u201cPalimpsest: A History of the Written Word\u201d is in part an explanation of how it was possible for \u201ca craft so sophisticated and cognitively demanding to knit itself securely into our quotidian ways.\u201d To tell the story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/18\/the-mystical-writing-pad-wsj-august-18-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}