{"id":7884,"date":"2014-08-05T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2014-08-05T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:22:19","slug":"one-persons-fountain-of-youth-is-anothers-fountain-of-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7884","title":{"rendered":"One Person’s Fountain Of Youth Is Another’s Fountain Of Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

I follow I Facebook group devoted to “classic” TV shows. \u00a0This photo came across that stream this morning…<\/p>\n

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Techno geek that I am, the first thing I latched onto was the TV camera. Just look at it. It’s friggin’ Huge. And it was probably only capable of capturing video in black & white. That gatling gun lens mount is what they used to adjust the field of view before zoom lenses became a thing. The tripod it’s on gives a hint of how heavy it was.<\/p>\n

I should feel so terribly old looking at this but I don’t. What I feel is Ha! I can record better video from the little hand held device in my pocket than that hulking monstrosity could and transmit it to the entire world from just about anywhere I happen to be standing.<\/em> \u00a0 I’m sixty years old now, and something I’ve noticed is that progress makes some people feel old while it leaves others always feeling young…<\/p>\n

…because you’re always having to learn new sh*t! All this time I’ve been attributing that constant twenty-ish mindset I have to a state of arrested development and that’s not it. It isn’t that I never grew up, it’s that I never got tired of growing up.<\/p>\n

And that’s the way it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I follow I Facebook group devoted to “classic” TV shows. \u00a0This photo came across that stream this morning… Techno geek that I am, the first thing I latched onto was the TV camera. Just look at it. It’s friggin’ Huge. And it was probably only capable of capturing video in black & white. That gatling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157,55],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-old-man-chronicles","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}