{"id":668,"date":"2008-03-26T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=668"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:04:34","slug":"sign-1-that-you%e2%80%99re-starting-to-get-old-%e2%80%9cit-couldn%e2%80%99t-have-looked-that-bad%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Sign #1 that you\u2019re starting to get old: \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have looked THAT bad!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-080110evergreen-photogallery,0,1011066.photogallery\">this photo<\/a>, ostensibly dated 1985 from the Chicago Tribune, depicting a mall that (in current times) is about to get razed and redeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see, in 1985, I would\u2019ve been 7 or 8 years old.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/images\/1985_chicago.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago, 1985\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holy hell! Did things really look that\u2026 old, back then? I mean, the cars, the signs\u2026 they look so\u2026 well, OLD! I would\u2019ve easily pegged this image as being early 70s if I had not been told of the date. In fact part of me still has doubts!<\/p>\n<p>23 years down the road, am I gonna look at photos I took of my car recently and think \u201cDAMN! I owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/images\/car_dec2005-current.jpg\">THAT old jalopy?!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just that the photo was shot in black and white that makes it appear so dated. I mean, Christ, when did people finally get it that shooting in color isn\u2019t so bad, particularly for historical preservation purposes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this photo, ostensibly dated 1985 from the Chicago Tribune, depicting a mall that (in current times) is about to get razed and redeveloped. Let\u2019s see, in 1985, I would\u2019ve been 7 or 8 years old. Holy hell! Did things really look that\u2026 old, back then? I mean, the cars, the signs\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}