{"id":503,"date":"2010-02-12T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-02-12T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:23:59","slug":"stuck-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2010\/02\/stuck-in-the-past","title":{"rendered":"stuck in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_MMJAAAAIAAJ&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&#038;q=&#038;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/machineshop.jpg\" alt=\"image of a machine shop from Google Books\" title=\"machineshop\" width=\"497\" height=\"596\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/machineshop.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/machineshop-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was discussing with friends lately how the 1890s is my favorite decade. Back when this blog was just a teeny &#8220;what I did today&#8221; ramble, I&#8217;d take machine shop photos and colorize them so that I could have images to use next to some of my posts. This usually involved, in the late 1990s, taking a photograph of a book. Well now I can go go Google and read an entire book from 1895 full of fun machine pictures and even add it to my so-called bookshelf.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has been going on this week other than the normal stuff. I have had a cold and have been doing the lay low thing in addition to my usual work. I got very &#8220;rah rah&#8221; about blogging stuff when I was doing it for BoingBoing, but coming back to my little &#8220;hey here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been up&#8221; box that I type into does not make me want to go off and research 19th century dictionary advertisements [though I have a great old advertisement for one]. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157623320891258\/detail\/\">Here are the photos of my trip to Florida<\/a>. I had a nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2010\/02\/stuck-in-the-past\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to stuck in the past\"><p>I was discussing with friends lately how the 1890s is my favorite decade. Back when this blog was just a teeny &#8220;what I did today&#8221; ramble, I&#8217;d take machine shop photos and colorize them so that I could have images to use next to some of my posts. This usually involved, in the late 1990s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[442,443,83,441,4,3],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-google","tag-googlebooks","tag-jessamyn","tag-machineshop","tag-me","tag-travel","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}