{"id":34884,"date":"2026-09-23T01:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34884"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:56:15","slug":"send-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/send-in-the-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"send in the clowns &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34885\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/clowns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34885\" class=\"wp-image-34885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/clowns-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a reluctant clown &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The photo at left is much too new to be collectible. In the 1970s\/1980s the CNE offered to &#8216;paint&#8217; a child&#8217;s face in a clown disguise (perhaps the CNE offered this feature in other years both earlier and later).<\/p>\n<p>Collectors of old photos may have circus photos, perhaps in a subsection of their collection tagged as circus, clowns, wild animals, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fall-fair-time\/\">next fair is scheduled for next month<\/a> and will be a great place to augment collections be they photos or the gear used to captured them.<\/p>\n<p>NB. This post is titled by the Judy Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Send_In_the_Clowns\">song of the same name<\/a>, sung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8L6KGuTr9TI\">here<\/a> by the lady herself (and perhaps not about clowns at all). I heard the song years ago in a Yorkville eatery. My companions identified the song and its singer for me. Later I picked up the CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The photo at left is much too new to be collectible. In the 1970s\/1980s the CNE offered to &#8216;paint&#8217; a child&#8217;s face in a clown disguise (perhaps the CNE offered this feature in other years both earlier and later). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/send-in-the-clowns\/\">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":[39],"tags":[34,105,14,279,4644],"class_list":["post-34884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair","tag-cameras","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-lenses","tag-old-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884","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=34884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34890,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34884\/revisions\/34890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}