
{"id":15706,"date":"2011-02-03T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:44:31","slug":"rock-mason-james-blacknell-jr-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/03\/rock-mason-james-blacknell-jr-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock mason James Blacknell Jr., 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/02\/03\/rock-mason-james-blacknell-jr-1984\/jock-020311\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jock.020311\" width=\"550\" height=\"831\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311-74x113.jpg 74w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jock.020311-52x80.jpg 52w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEvery child who ever romped on the old stone walls on campus should thank this man. When I photographed 80-year-old James Blacknell Jr. in 1984, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been laying rock at UNC for 66 years. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah, there ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too many (stones) around the university campus that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have something to do with.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As he was laying more Chatham gray granite at a home in New Hope, the master rock mason reflected on how it all started: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My daddy was in charge of the grounds up on campus, and they couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find no mason anywhere. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite 15 at the time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. My daddy give me a liddlebiddy ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pointin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 trowel, and I just went to doin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  To borrow a phrase: Now let us praise famous men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every child who ever romped on the old stone walls on campus should thank this man. When I photographed 80-year-old James Blacknell Jr. in 1984, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been laying rock at UNC for 66 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15711,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions\/15711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}