{"id":14015,"date":"2019-03-03T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14015"},"modified":"2019-03-02T02:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T06:47:28","slug":"jackie-and-family-july-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/jackie-and-family-july-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie and family July 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14016\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leen_nina_1041_2005_fans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14016\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14016\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leen_nina_1041_2005_fans-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Robinson and his family in 1949 &#8211; by Nina Leen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto. <\/strong>Our speaker last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13777\">Erin Levitsky<\/a>, spoke on LIFE photographer Nina Leen. Growing up in Canada, I often heard of Jackie Robinson and how he broke baseball&#8217;s colour barrier playing for a Montreal Royals team.<\/p>\n<p>My apologies for celebrating Black History month a few days late with this post but it not only celebrates a special event in history but links to the topic of our speaker last month, the photographer Nina Leen.<\/p>\n<p>This photo of Robinson and family was taken by Ms Leen in the summer of 1949. Details of the print are shown on the back (verso) as you see below.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to the site called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fansinaflashbulb.wordpress.com\">Fans in a Flashbulb<\/a>&#8221; for this photograph and to George Dunbar for suggesting the site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14018\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leen_nina_1041_2005_verso_fans-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leen_nina_1041_2005_verso_fans-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leen_nina_1041_2005_verso_fans-600-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Our speaker last month, Erin Levitsky, spoke on LIFE photographer Nina Leen. Growing up in Canada, I often heard of Jackie Robinson and how he broke baseball&#8217;s colour barrier playing for a Montreal Royals team. My apologies for celebrating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/jackie-and-family-july-1949\/\">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":[2479,2417],"class_list":["post-14015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-erin-levitsky","tag-nina-leen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015","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=14015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14021,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}