{"id":25086,"date":"2023-02-02T01:03:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25086"},"modified":"2023-01-31T01:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T05:33:38","slug":"to-print-or-not-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/to-print-or-not-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"to print or not to print"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25087\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/goofy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25087\" class=\"wp-image-25087 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/goofy-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc\">feelin&#8217; goofy<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The popularity of mid 1800s printing made possible the Victorian practice of making a photographic album. This practice carried on well into the next century.<\/p>\n<p>When the idea of albums disappeared, a drawer, shoe box or other small space served to hold photos of family interest and history.<\/p>\n<p>When digital photography came along, most images were simply filed in a computer or smart phone. Sadly, changes in technology may mean the files cannot be opened in the future, or viewer formats may change making old files forever un-viewable.<\/p>\n<p>A simple solution would be to routinely <em>print<\/em> those images felt to be of future interest to a family genealogist or historian.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The title of this post is a riff on Shakespeare&#8217;s famous soliloquy from Hamlet, &#8220;To be or not to be&#8221;. And the title of the photo is a riff on a line from a 1966 song by Simon and Garfunkel, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_59th_Street_Bridge_Song_(Feelin%27_Groovy)\">59th Street Bridge Song<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The popularity of mid 1800s printing made possible the Victorian practice of making a photographic album. This practice carried on well into the next century. When the idea of albums disappeared, a drawer, shoe box or other small space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/to-print-or-not-to-print\/\">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":[105,14,3832,1942],"class_list":["post-25086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-genealogy","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086","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=25086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25091,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086\/revisions\/25091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}