
{"id":22827,"date":"2012-01-12T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2012-01-12T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:32:05","slug":"the-dad-bite-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/01\/12\/the-dad-bite-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"The dad bite, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/01\/12\/the-dad-bite-1968\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1KWords011212\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212-113x86.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212-147x113.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212-100x76.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1KWords011212-360x276.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m of the opinion that the humble snapshot, given enough time, becomes a piece of priceless documentary photography. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perfect example. Tom Carson of Chapel Hill sends in this father-son \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slice-of-life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photograph along with the following narrative: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did your dad ever ask you for a bite of\u00c2\u00a0your favorite\u00c2\u00a0sandwich, cookie or brownie? Did he ever hand back anything that resembled what you handed him?\u00c2\u00a0Mine never did.\u00c2\u00a0A dad bite was invariably beyond huge and you only handed your treat over with a great deal of regret. He always handed back the little crescent of remains with the biggest of grins.\u00c2\u00a0Here I am, age 9, in 1968.\u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u00bam\u00c2\u00a0about to get worked over good.\u00c2\u00a0My dad\u00c2\u00a0took his last bite in 2010.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And Tom adds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think my mother did take the photo, no doubt\u00c2\u00a0with her trusty Kodak Instamatic, or perhaps a Brownie.\u00c2\u00a0This was taken in the kitchen of our house in Haddonfield, N.J.\u00c2\u00a0My father was\u00c2\u00a0Ned Carson.\u00c2\u00a0He was 43 at the time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/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>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m of the opinion that the humble snapshot, given enough time, becomes a piece of priceless documentary photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22827","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\/22827","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=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}