{"id":136668,"date":"2018-06-03T07:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136668"},"modified":"2018-06-04T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:32:05","slug":"the-evolution-of-yearbook-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/the-evolution-of-yearbook-signatures.html","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Yearbook Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline isn’t quite right — the article doesn’t delve much into the why<\/i> of people signing yearbooks, or why it has changed over the decades. But it does cover the trends of change over time, which is itself interesting.<\/p>\n

(I would guess it is also US-centric. I would think this sort of thing varies significantly by country.)<\/p>\n


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\nWhy Do People Sign Yearbooks?<\/a><\/span>
\nCommemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, rhyming couplets, and \u201chave a great summer\u201d wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline isn’t quite right — the article doesn’t delve much into the why of people signing yearbooks, or why it has changed over the decades. But it does cover the trends of change over time, which is itself interesting. (I would guess it is also US-centric. I would think this sort of thing varies … Continue reading “The Evolution of Yearbook Signatures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/yearbooks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42505,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/because-duct-tape-was-easier-than-scissors-i-guess.html","url_meta":{"origin":136668,"position":0},"title":"Because duct tape was easier than scissors, I guess","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jun-14 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Really? The principal didn't bother to review the year book before it went off to the printer, then decided some of the senior comments were (for whatever arbitrary reason) inappropriate, and then decided to set the yearbook staff to putting electrical tape over the offending passages?That's goofy. And, honestly, an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27082,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/end-of-an-encyclopaediac-era-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":136668,"position":1},"title":"End of an encyclopaediac era, Part 2","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Mar-12 5:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We were a Colliers Encyclopedia family. My folks bought a set when I was an infant, and faithfully bought the yearbooks for many years.I never got much help at school assignments from it, but it was fun to read on a Saturday afternoon. #ddtbReshared post from +Breaking NewsEncyclopedia Britannica to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136683,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136668\/revisions\/136683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}