{"id":1293,"date":"2009-08-21T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T02:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-21\/1293"},"modified":"2009-08-21T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T02:53:15","slug":"letter-to-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-21\/1293","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1293'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"019508\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_019508.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_019508_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Letter to Mommy -- Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i019508\"\nphotostream=\"anthony\"\ntitle=\"Letter to Mommy -- Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.2, ISO 4500 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_019508.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_019508.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Letter to Mommy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While we've been on our trip to The States, Anthony heard that Mommy had\nprogressed to <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> level in her ballet dancing, so he wanted to send her <span class='nobr'>a\nletter<\/span> to congratulate her...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"019503\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_019503.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_019503_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i019503\"\ntitle=\"Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 1100 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_019503.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_019503.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name=\"019523\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_019523.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_019523_sm.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Addressing -- Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nclass=\"autoresize\"\nid=\"i019523\"\nonload=\"jeffs_autoresize(this, 'arw1293')\"\ntitle=\"Addressing -- Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a><img id='Ai019523'  class='unsize' onclick=\"jeffs_unautoresize('i019523', 465, 700, 'arw1293')\" src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif' width='19' height='18' onmouseover='this.src = \"\/i\/s\/white_zoomup.gif\"' onmouseout='this.src = \"\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif\"'\/>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.2, ISO 2800 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_019523.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_019523.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Addressing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Anthony can write Hiragana fine (one of the three Japanese scripts), but\nhe can't yet write kanji (&#8220;Chinese characters&#8221;) except his name, so <span class='nobr'>I wrote<\/span>\nthe address and had him copy it. <span class='nobr'>It's not a<\/span> good idea to do this very much,\nbecause the order that the strokes of each character are written is very\nimportant, so no experience is better than untrained experience. <span class='nobr'>But doing<\/span> it once won't hurt, and <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> Mommy might appreciate to see his\nefforts.<\/p>\n\n<p>We're heading into the last week of our trip soon... then back on <span class='nobr'>a\nplane<\/span> for Kyoto, where <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a month<\/span> of unread email waiting...<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we've been on our trip to The States, Anthony heard that Mommy had progressed to a new level in her ballet dancing, so he wanted to send her a letter to congratulate her...<\/p> <p>Anthony can write Hiragana fine (one of the three Japanese scripts), but he can't yet write kanji (\"Chinese characters\") except his name, so I wrote the address and had him copy it. It's not a good idea to do this very much, because the order that the strokes of each character are written is very important, so no experience is better than untrained experience. 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