{"id":110950,"date":"2022-08-07T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110950"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:16:46","slug":"artifacts-from-the-studay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110950","title":{"rendered":"Artifacts From the Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We move from place to place to place.&nbsp; Homes are sold, we move on.&nbsp; And wherever we may land there may be a few items transported with us from where we <em>began<\/em>, to our next nest.&nbsp; It could be a painting, a clock, a figurine or some bibelot that has sentimental value.&nbsp; Some of these <em>treasures<\/em> can be further divided amongst our issue, as they fledge <em>our<\/em> nests and set up shop elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so it was on my recent visit to Zack\u2019s flat in Torrance, CA that I espied 4 <em>curios<\/em> on his bookshelf that I place originally on a bookshelf of the study adjacent to Paul\u2019s (and then my) bedroom at 25 Alston Ave.&nbsp; And for all I know, these artifacts may trace even <em>further<\/em> back to Orange St.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearly the gruff looking baseball player was brought to the study by Paul, <em>and probably <\/em>dates back to pre-Alston Ave.&nbsp; The three dinosaurs most likely entered via me, courtesy of Yale\u2019s Peabody Museum (or, again, maybe Paul also fancied Dinos?).&nbsp; Dinosaur reproductions available today in terms of detail and accuracy have totally eclipsed what we had in the 50s.&nbsp; But these Dinosaurs made from lead have a <em>presence, <\/em>inaccurate though they may be<em>,<\/em> that is absent in the plastic renditions of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It warmed me to see a small measure of continuity on a distant bookshelf in Torrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artifacts-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artifacts-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110951\" srcset=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artifacts-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artifacts-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We move from place to place to place.&nbsp; Homes are sold, we move on.&nbsp; And wherever we may land there may be a few items transported with us from where we began, to our next nest.&nbsp; It could be a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110950\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-small-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110953,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110950\/revisions\/110953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}