{"id":775,"date":"2009-09-20T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=775"},"modified":"2009-09-20T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T04:33:22","slug":"mixing-molten-lead-and-blackberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/20\/mixing-molten-lead-and-blackberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing molten lead and Blackberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaseblair\/2103829971\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-776\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/Goss-press.jpg\" alt=\"Goss press\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I think of the technology of text, something like the image above (a small Goss newspaper press) usually comes to mind.\u00a0 The first time I saw one, I was impressed by the size and mechanical complexity of it.\u00a0 Later, when I met some of the older pressmen, they told me stories of the hot lead days&#8211;a few even had scars on their forearms from when the slugs (letter forms) would jam as they were sliding into place and, if the pressmen weren&#8217;t quick enough, hot lead would spray on to their arms.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I walked behind a student in the hall madly jabbing her thumbs at a tiny cell phone.\u00a0 The presses always made me think of the New York Times, democracy, mass distribution, and public debate.\u00a0 The cell phone makes me think: &#8220;c u l8tr&#8221; and a rendezvous at the mall. How does the medium shape the message?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of the technology of text, something like the image above (a small Goss newspaper press) usually comes to mind.\u00a0 The first time I saw one, I was impressed by the size and mechanical complexity of it.\u00a0 Later, when I met some of the older pressmen, they told me stories of the hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}