{"id":15473,"date":"2019-09-03T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15473"},"modified":"2019-09-02T22:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:16:31","slug":"mom-says-screens-are-bad-for-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mom-says-screens-are-bad-for-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"mom says screens are bad for your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15474\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Illustration-from-the-book-Shadows-on-the-Screen-1876-TPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15474\" class=\"wp-image-15474 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Illustration-from-the-book-Shadows-on-the-Screen-1876-TPL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an evening in 1876 &#8211; from a book at the Toronto Public Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto.<\/strong> This copy of the frontispiece of an 1876 book at the TPL titled, &#8220;<em>Shadows on the Screen; or, An Evening With The Children<\/em>&#8221; reminds us that &#8220;screens&#8221; have been around for well over a century now.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid and an enthusiastic reader, my mom told me books would, &#8220;<em>ruin my eyes<\/em>&#8220;. When we got TV in the 1950s my mom said, &#8220;<em>don&#8217;t sit so close. You&#8217;ll ruin your eyes<\/em>&#8220;. I wonder what she would say of computers and smartphones &#8211; especially smartphones &#8211; today?<\/p>\n<p>As we know in photography, projectors have been around since well before 1839. The first use of the painfully slow\/insensitive dry glass plate emulsion was to create magic lantern slides, often religious in nature. Slides became a means to project colour photographs last century &#8211; from Autochromes to Kodachromes, Ektachromes, and Anscochromes. Movies in black and white and later in sound and colour became a special treat, replaced by the convenience of television. Tommy, can you see me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. This copy of the frontispiece of an 1876 book at the TPL titled, &#8220;Shadows on the Screen; or, An Evening With The Children&#8221; reminds us that &#8220;screens&#8221; have been around for well over a century now. As a kid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mom-says-screens-are-bad-for-your-eyes\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[35,2752,1041,1042,1427,297],"class_list":["post-15473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-books","tag-computers","tag-projectors","tag-slides","tag-smartphones","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473","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=15473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15477,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15473\/revisions\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}