{"id":451,"date":"2009-03-29T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2009-03-29T04:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T09:55:55","slug":"writing-marigeta-haile-selassie-mekele-tigray-ethiopia-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/writing-marigeta-haile-selassie-mekele-tigray-ethiopia-march-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing, Marigeta Haile Selassie, Mek’ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Writing,<\/a><\/p>\n

I normally do not publish photos from my research work, but I have decided to try making them a little more artistic, and will attempt to get some good ones up here.<\/p>\n

In this one, Marigeta* Haile Selassie, writing out a short phrase as a demonstration of\u00a0 pen-technique. Notice that he holds the pen at nearly a 90-degree angle from the page, a position dictated by the nearly-90-degree cut he made of the nib, with a slight angle to allow right-handed writing. He is working on his knee, sitting on a small stool in the corner of his shop, next to the window. The pen is made out of bamboo, two species of which are native to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

*The title, which basically translates as ‘Master,’ refers to having completed a certain level of traditional Church education–‘temhert’–the focus of which is the memorization of Church books. The level above it would be ‘Memhir,’ which means ‘traditional church teacher.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I normally do not publish photos from my research work, but I have decided to try making them a little more artistic, and will attempt to get some good ones up here. In this one, Marigeta* Haile Selassie, writing out a short phrase as a demonstration of\u00a0 pen-technique. Notice that he holds the pen at … Continue reading “Writing, Marigeta Haile Selassie, Mek’ele, Tigray, Ethiopia, March 2009”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,287,533,548,663,678,793,909],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-marigeta-haile-selassie","tag-mekele","tag-parchment","tag-pen","tag-scribe","tag-tigray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}