{"id":573883864,"date":"2012-09-11T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883864"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T21:26:09","slug":"glomeratas-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/glomeratas-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Glomeratas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the yearbooks. This one comes in two-tone and two-texture. There&#8217;s the solid leather feel, with a sensitive plush section along the bottom. This was how they hedged their bets: Just what will this new decade be? How will it look back upon us?<\/p>\n<p>You really shouldn&#8217;t judge books by a cover, but sometimes you must. <em>Why did they need to say First in Ten? Isn&#8217;t that obvious? And how did they resist the temptation to make the first 21st century reference?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/gloms\/covers\/1990.jpg\" alt=\"Glomerata90\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was the age of George Bush, the elder. Computers were being talked about everywhere, and only sometimes resisted. Students were painting tiger paws onto roads &#8212; and being taken to the police station for it. (These days that prank has become formalized as tradition.) The hair was big, with only a few hints of being brought under control. No one wore flannel. Yet. It was a special time at Auburn University.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/gloms\/covers\/1990.html\">1990 Glomerata here<\/a>. To see the rest of the covers in my personal collection you can <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/gloms\/covers\/\">start here<\/a>. For a detailed look at selected volumes, you might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/gloms\/\">enjoy this link<\/a>. Here is the university&#8217;s <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/diglib.auburn.edu\/collections\/gloms\/\">official collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the yearbooks. This one comes in two-tone and two-texture. There&#8217;s the solid leather feel, with a sensitive plush section along the bottom. This was how they hedged their bets: Just what will this new decade be? How will it look back upon us? You really shouldn&#8217;t judge books by a cover, but sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glomerata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883866,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883864\/revisions\/573883866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}