{"id":18425,"date":"2015-03-25T03:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18425"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:13:20","slug":"the-magnificent-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/25\/the-magnificent-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magnificent Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seven-Girls\"<\/p>\n

Another photo restoration of an old photograph of my grandmother – Rhea Garceau, seated in the middle. I’m not certain\u00a0who the other women are – but being that two of them are dead ringers for my cousins, I think it’s safe to say they’re relatives. Original scan behind the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SevenGirlsOrig\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another photo restoration of an old photograph of my grandmother – Rhea Garceau, seated in the middle. I’m not certain\u00a0who the other women are – but being that two of them are dead ringers for my cousins, I think it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3113],"tags":[1643,125,3480,1258],"class_list":["post-18425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-1910s","tag-family","tag-group-portraits","tag-vintage-photographs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25621,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/07\/29\/family-photo-restoration\/","url_meta":{"origin":18425,"position":0},"title":"Family Photo Restoration","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"July 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Slowly but surely, I've been scanning old family photos and restoring them. 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