{"id":6677,"date":"2007-06-05T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T17:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2011-05-01T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T14:45:57","slug":"old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6677","title":{"rendered":"Old photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/posing-on-a-pier-c1902\">Beautiful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/957\">Circus family<\/a>.  Extraordinary, on so many levels.  The faces.  Mitchell &#8211; this is one you must check out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/girl-as-housemaid-c1928\">Kitchen<\/a>.  This one reminds me of <i>The Hours<\/i>, even though it&#8217;s the wrong period.  It makes me think of Laura Brown trying to make a birthday cake for her husband.  Something about it.  (Leave it to me to see suicide and despair in a benign photo like that one.  I&#8217;ve written before about my aversion to domesticity <i>of that kind<\/i> that almost borders on pathological.  Makes me believe in reincarnation, almost &#8211; or successive lifetimes.  Maybe it&#8217;s not pathological.  Maybe it&#8217;s that I know who I am, to such a degree, that I have avoided something that would have been spiritual death, an anguish of suppression &#8211; that&#8217;s why <i>The Hours<\/i> was almost unpleasant to read, I felt almost like I <i>knew<\/i> that woman in an intuitive way, I had such a visceral response to Laura Brown &#8230; even though my experience has been nothing like hers.  Who knows.  I just think it&#8217;s funny that from THAT photo, I see piercing mental agony.  Insane.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful. Circus family. Extraordinary, on so many levels. The faces. Mitchell &#8211; this is one you must check out! Kitchen. This one reminds me of The Hours, even though it&#8217;s the wrong period. It makes me think of Laura Brown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37150,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/37150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}