{"id":7595,"date":"2017-02-03T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2017-02-02T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:40:09","slug":"watch-the-birdie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/watch-the-birdie\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Birdie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smileformetoys.com\/watch-the-birdie.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7596\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/original-birdie-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. My thanks to friend John Linsky for reminding me of the old photographers who used a novelty to attract the attention of smaller subjects (John has some of these too). In the 1800s and early 1900s it was important that subjects sit still for a few seconds &#8211; or minutes &#8211; to have a decent portrait captured in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>A typical gadget was this small brass bird which was mounted on\u00a0the big studio camera and would chirp when the photographer pressed his rubber ball to snap the photo.<\/p>\n<p>One of our members had an original birdie which he happily displayed at a meeting for all to see. The little brass bird sparked the\u00a0popular expression &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smileformetoys.com\/watch-the-birdie.html\">watch the birdie<\/a>&#8220;. The icon and link will take you to an article on the birdie at <em>Smile for me Toys<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My thanks to friend John Linsky for reminding me of the old photographers who used a novelty to attract the attention of smaller subjects (John has some of these too). In the 1800s and early 1900s it was important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/watch-the-birdie\/\">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":[24],"tags":[909,398],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-birdie","tag-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","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=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}