{"id":573880368,"date":"2010-08-18T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880368"},"modified":"2010-09-02T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T03:23:12","slug":"the-1939-worlds-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/the-1939-worlds-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1939 World&#8217;s Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New on the site<\/strong>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/39fair\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">1939 World&#8217;s Fair Guide Book project<\/a> is underway. Four entries today, we&#8217;ll see a small handful a week until around Thanksgiving. This isn&#8217;t a comprehensive look at the guide, or the fair.<\/p>\n<p>This is a focal point for a lot of people online &#8212; it was the first fair that looked at the future, a future that was interrupted or ended because of the war. I&#8217;m no expert on the fair or the period &#8212; I&#8217;m surprised fair organizers didn&#8217;t just send the guide to visitors&#8217; iPods &#8212; but the text is at times entertaining and the art and models are amusing. You and I will just look at the most interesting ones together.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your first random tidbit. The models were popular images in the book because they gave visitors a certain since of scale about the place. They just look like models today, though, and would never be acceptable for a modern publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on the site: The 1939 World&#8217;s Fair Guide Book project is underway. Four entries today, we&#8217;ll see a small handful a week until around Thanksgiving. This isn&#8217;t a comprehensive look at the guide, or the fair. This is a focal point for a lot of people online &#8212; it was the first fair that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880371,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880368\/revisions\/573880371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}