{"id":22669,"date":"2022-02-09T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22669"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:14:40","slug":"more-than-skin-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/more-than-skin-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"more than skin-deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22670\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/X-ray-photos-Popular-Mechanics-Jan.-1939-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22670\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/X-ray-photos-Popular-Mechanics-Jan.-1939-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getting a chest x-ray in 1939<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Do you remember when you had an annual chest x-ray to detect TB? No? You must be a lot younger than me! This Popular Mechanics article from the January, 1939 issue shows how Westinghouse made an &#8216;electronic flash&#8217; gizmo to take X-rays in a fraction of a second to avoid unintended movement.<\/p>\n<p>I remember getting an annual x-ray after WW2 when just a little kid. A photograph depicts the x-ray system in action. I can still remember pressing my little chest against the film plate like the girl in this photo.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar for sharing this interesting article about chest x-rays before WW2. It brought back some more memories of days long past.<\/p>\n<p>The title is a play on an old saying, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabulary.com\/dictionary\/skin-deep\">Beauty is only skin-deep<\/a>&#8221; which implied that a person&#8217;s personality is more important his\/her looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Do you remember when you had an annual chest x-ray to detect TB? No? You must be a lot younger than me! This Popular Mechanics article from the January, 1939 issue shows how Westinghouse made an &#8216;electronic flash&#8217; gizmo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/more-than-skin-deep\/\">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":[14,755,613,495,4038,2012],"class_list":["post-22669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-film","tag-flash","tag-photo","tag-photograph","tag-westinghouse","tag-x-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669","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=22669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22675,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions\/22675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}