{"id":6479,"date":"2010-03-01T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2012-11-06T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T04:19:18","slug":"quick-whats-the-first-thought-that-springs-to-your-mind-when-you-view-this-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6479\/quick-whats-the-first-thought-that-springs-to-your-mind-when-you-view-this-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick, what’s the first thought that springs to your mind when you view this image"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boingboing today pointed to this film, “Century 21 Calling…”, dated 1964 but courtesy of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle.<\/p>\n

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Toward the beginning of the film, the camera following a teenage couple gleefully riding the monorail, we get this rear shot of them.<\/p>\n

What first comes to your mind?<\/p>\n

Me? I thought, ah, so here we have the nativity of the early Star Trek uniform, the dark oxford shirt with brighter cardigan. And I decided to later blog about this astute notice on my part.<\/p>\n

I watched the rest of the film then dragged my 12 year old son in.<\/p>\n

“Young son,” I said, “come and look at the childhood home of your antique mother. See how the natives dressed. Ogle the Space Needle. These are the scenes as I would have viewed them at the tender age of five.”<\/p>\n

I began to play the film for him. The first words out of his mouth? As this above scene played on the screen, he whooped, “It’s Star Trek!”<\/p>\n

We’re not even Star Trek geeks. Though I used to love the show, we’ve never watched an episode with him. Yet this rear profile–the haircut, the collar and cardigan–is immediately defined by him as “Star Trek”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boingboing today pointed to this film, “Century 21 Calling…”, dated 1964 but courtesy of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. Toward the beginning of the film, the camera following a teenage couple gleefully riding the monorail, we get this rear shot of them. What first comes to your mind? Me? I thought, ah, so here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,423],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-scenic-views-from-the-20th-century-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}