{"id":28148,"date":"2025-04-03T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28148"},"modified":"2025-04-04T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:13:37","slug":"what-are-the-origins-of-the-heart-hands-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/04\/03\/what-are-the-origins-of-the-heart-hands-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the origins of the heart hands emoji?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8.jpg\" alt=\"What are the origins of the heart hands emoji?\" class=\"wp-image-28132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AW040325-8-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What are the origins of the heart hands emoji?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some say the hand heart comes from Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan in a photo titled &#8220;Family Syntax&#8221; in 1989. Others say it comes from poppin&#8217; dance moves from the 1970&#8217;s. Regardless, it became really popular as a gesture in around 2010, then became an emoji after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say the hand heart comes from Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan in a photo titled &#8220;Family Syntax&#8221; in 1989. Others say it comes from poppin&#8217; dance moves from the 1970&#8217;s. Regardless, it became really popular as a gesture in around 2010, then became an emoji after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28152,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions\/28152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}