{"id":20809,"date":"2021-06-14T01:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20809"},"modified":"2021-06-13T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:05:16","slug":"the-summer-of-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-summer-of-44\/","title":{"rendered":"the summer of &#8217;44"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20811\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-June-1944.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20811\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-June-1944-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graflex ad in June 1944 issue of Popular Photogaphy<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. WW2 was winding down the summer of 1944 and would end in Allied victory the following spring\/summer.<\/p>\n<p>Graflex gave a novel twist to the war effort and the American fighting men suggesting the average American was Part-Owner of cameras his government purchased for use in the war.<\/p>\n<p>Further, that the average American could become a sole owner of a Graflex after the end of the war, buying it with the proceeds of no longer needed war bonds!<\/p>\n<p>Once again, please give a big thank you to my friend and fellow photography historian for sharing this find with us.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the title of this post is a riff on a 1970s book I enjoyed many years ago called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summer_of_%2742\">Summer of &#8217;42<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. WW2 was winding down the summer of 1944 and would end in Allied victory the following spring\/summer. Graflex gave a novel twist to the war effort and the American fighting men suggesting the average American was Part-Owner of cameras &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-summer-of-44\/\">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":[398,263,1637,578],"class_list":["post-20809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-graflex","tag-pop-photography","tag-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809","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=20809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20813,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20809\/revisions\/20813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}