{"id":505,"date":"2009-10-31T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:14:14","slug":"christmas-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/31\/christmas-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the final stretch of converting Uncle Walt&#8217;s old 8 mm home movie collection into digital form.\u00a0 This collection is huge, containing approximately 7 hours of video.\u00a0 I expect to finish the digital editing, enhancing and titling this weekend and begin rendering the DVDs.\u00a0 It will probably take 7 DVDs to hold the collection.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share an interesting clip from Christmas, 1972.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a short clip, only one minute, 27 seconds in length.\u00a0 It was common for 8 mm reels to contain multiple events.\u00a0 This scene was taken from the first half of reel #80, and took place in my grandfather&#8217;s St Clair Shores basement.\u00a0 These were the classic Christmas Eve events I fondly recalled, where Aunt Eleanor and Grandma Kling could be found in the basement, next to the electric roasters, cooking turkey and ham after church.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at Al&#8217;s hair!\u00a0 Certainly a sign of the times.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>[mediaplayer src=&#8217;\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christmas_1972.wmv&#8217; autoLoad=1 ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the final stretch of converting Uncle Walt&#8217;s old 8 mm home movie collection into digital form.\u00a0 This collection is huge, containing approximately 7 hours of video.\u00a0 I expect &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyandfriends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}