{"id":17755,"date":"2019-04-23T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:59:29","slug":"making-your-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17755","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I&#8217;m off to London, and tomorrow morning I&#8217;m going to the opening of an exhibition about at the British Library entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/events\/writing-making-your-mark\">Writing: Making Your Mark<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/makingyourmark.png\" alt=\"Making Your Mark\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They describe it as &#8220;the extraordinary story behind one of humankind&#8217;s greatest achievements: through more than 100 objects spanning 5,000 years and seven continents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It includes such things as notebooks from Mozart, Alexander Fleming and James Joyce, as well examples of writing, calligraphy, writing tools and typewriters from around world.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a press view and guided tour of the exhibition tomorrow morning, which I&#8217;m going to, and a big opening event on Thursday evening. The exhibtion opens to public on Friday, and runs until the end of August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to the British Library before, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see it, and the exhibition sounds fascinating, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I&#8217;m off to London, and tomorrow morning I&#8217;m going to the opening of an exhibition about at the British Library entitled &#8220;Writing: Making Your Mark&#8220;. They describe it as &#8220;the extraordinary story behind one of humankind&#8217;s greatest achievements: through more than 100 objects spanning 5,000 years and seven continents.&#8221; It includes such things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,73,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-travel","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}