
{"id":21015,"date":"2011-09-22T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21015"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:29:25","slug":"manhattan-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/22\/manhattan-1931\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan 1931"},"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\/09\/22\/manhattan-1931\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords092211.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords092211.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords092211-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords092211-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords092211-75x100.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe go through our daily lives seeing but failing to observe. Or to put it simply in that famous Yogi Berra-ism: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can observe a lot just by lookin.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Case in point: this enormous wall photograph that has hung for years in the front lobby of New East. Only last week, during the 10th anniversary of 9\/11, did I finally pay attention to this remarkable image for its historical significance. The wall plaque, titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lower Manhattan, October, 1931\u00e2\u20ac\u009d further explains: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Looking west across the lower tip of Manhattan island, this photograph, taken by the Fairchild Aerial Survey Company \u00e2\u20ac\u201c captures the most celebrated city of the Jazz Age. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Directly below the aircraft is the future site of the World Trade Center.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d One can only imagine the lumbering prop-driven aircraft and cumbersome film camera used to make this glorious image. But what must strike you is the dramatic irony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of seeing the World Trade Center site before its birth, death and resurrection.<\/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>We go through our daily lives seeing but failing to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21015","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\/21015","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=21015"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21034,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21015\/revisions\/21034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}