{"id":8615,"date":"2020-09-09T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2020-09-09T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:02:33","slug":"whats-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/whats-a-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s A Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" src=\"http:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1-1536x1265.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cartoon-Camera-Weekly-9-June-1984-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Thumbing through an old diary I came across this cartoon recently.  It&#8217;s an image I have often recalled over the years, but wouldn&#8217;t have known where to find it.  I think it captures in a surreal way the mystery and magic of photography, qualities perhaps lost in the digital age.  Leonardo da Vinci wrote the oldest known clear description of using the camera obscura 1502.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbing through an old diary I came across this cartoon recently. It&#8217;s an image I have often recalled over the years, but wouldn&#8217;t have known where to find it. I think it captures in a surreal way the mystery and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/whats-a-camera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-2eX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}