{"id":420,"date":"2015-08-18T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:06:55","slug":"a-life-in-a-box-of-slides-who-is-this-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/2015\/08\/18\/a-life-in-a-box-of-slides-who-is-this-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life in a Box of Slides &#8211; Who is This Woman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mystery-woman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-421 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mystery-woman-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"mystery-woman\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mystery-woman-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mystery-woman.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>I check craigslist periodically for fun, looking for odd photo gear, art supplies or whatever. A while ago I saw a post for &#8220;Box of Slides $5.&#8221; Curiosity got the best of me and I replied. I met a young woman in downtown Tucson with a cardboard box and a jumble of slides. I handed over a fiver and went home to find a box of memories from the distant past. Michigan football games from the sixties, world travels and life events. I&#8217;m most intrigued by the images of the woman shown\u00a0&#8211; it appears to be &#8220;the daughter.&#8221; The dress, the tiara, the admiring friend, the dainty pose of the hands. If she&#8217;s still alive she&#8217;s getting up there by now. In retrospect I should have asked the young woman where she got it but I didn&#8217;t think of it at the time. Maybe she led a charmed life, I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I check craigslist periodically for fun, looking for odd photo gear, art supplies or whatever. A while ago I saw a post for &#8220;Box of Slides $5.&#8221; Curiosity got the best of me and I replied. I met a young woman in downtown Tucson with a cardboard box and a jumble of slides. I handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}