{"id":12291,"date":"2018-08-06T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:00:42","slug":"the-summer-of-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-summer-of-69\/","title":{"rendered":"the summer of &#8217;69"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12293\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20151010-223413-Suzy-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12293\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12293\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20151010-223413-Suzy-3-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Born &#8211; Summer 1969<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg\">the summer of 69<\/a>&#8221; is a line in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bryanadams.com\">Bryan Adams<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Bryan-adams-summer-of-69-lyrics\">song<\/a> of the same name released as a single in 1985 (and on the album <em>Reckless<\/em> a year earlier). In later years, Adams took up the profession of <a href=\"http:\/\/bryanadamsphotography.com\">photography<\/a>\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n<p>1969 was quite a year all in all. My first child was born. I won first prize with this portrait of her and a nurse in a gloomy night-time hallway at The Montreal General using my Exakta bought about a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Armstrong\">Neil Armstrong<\/a> became the first man to walk on the moon. \u00a0And in 1969, the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4451120\/One-small-step-man-one-giant-leap-photography.html\">photographs ever taken on another celestial object<\/a> were recorded. It was a momentous year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8220;the summer of 69&#8221; is a line in the Bryan Adams song of the same name released as a single in 1985 (and on the album Reckless a year earlier). In later years, Adams took up the profession of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-summer-of-69\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[2111,2112,835,124,1751,2113],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-adams","tag-bryan-adams","tag-exakta","tag-montreal","tag-moon","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12295,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}