{"id":1282,"date":"2008-05-30T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2008-05-30T21:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T02:08:27","slug":"shop-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Shop Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1939<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300508l.jpg\" title=\"Civilized shop class\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300508.jpg\" title=\"300508.jpg\" alt=\"300508.jpg\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>1939. Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. &#8220;Carpentry shop.&#8221; 5&#215;7 nitrate negative, National Photo Company Collection. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/\">From Shorpy&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geez, I don&#8217;t know where to begin with this image.  Times like this I wish I <strike>was<\/strike> <strike>were<\/strike> was a writer and could form my opinions into a well crafted paragraph.  Since I&#8217;m not forgive me while I rant.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this shot I can honestly say they lived in a more sensible era.  Look at the projects they are working on, very complex wooden boat models.  Having built a few wood boats I can understand the difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial tools, being used with respect.  Notice the lack of safety glasses, and yet we didn&#8217;t suffer a generation of one-eyed victims.  Today they would all be bogged down in safety gear with sirens on their heads.  The exposure to the equipment would instill a strong life long respect for the tools they will use.<\/p>\n<p>This generation grew up as the first generation of model railroaders, and seeing an image like this you can understand how come that generation spawned so many craftsmen.  What is impressive today, was common knowledge back then.<\/p>\n<p>No dress code required.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1939 1939. Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. &#8220;Carpentry shop.&#8221; 5&#215;7 nitrate negative, National Photo Company Collection. From Shorpy&#8217;s Geez, I don&#8217;t know where to begin with this image. Times like this I wish I was were was a writer and could form my opinions into a well crafted paragraph. Since I&#8217;m not forgive me while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}