{"id":19238,"date":"2015-07-16T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=19238"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:56:45","slug":"throwback-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/16\/throwback-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Joe-dining room-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/19405127059\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/462\/19405127059_7483bc5662_z.jpg?resize=640%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joe-dining room-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>A self-portrait circa 1982. This is yet another Photo Elective shot. I&#8217;m not sure if this was to finish off a roll of film or was part of an assignment. I&#8217;ve heard other people from art school mention a self-portrait project, and this may have been mine. There were a couple of similar shots contiguous to this frame so this may have been part of an assignment rather than a film killer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s not a terribly interesting or flattering self-portrait, but it&#8217;s interesting to me to see part of my family&#8217;s dining room where my family had so happily broken bread on countless occasions. Sadly, that space is long gone and in it&#8217;s place is a convenience store&#8217;s parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest at least to me is my hair. I was about 20 years old here and my hairline was going from receding into a full retreat. The forehead was a five-head and headed to dome city. It&#8217;s certainly more than I have nowadays, but not by much.<script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-portrait circa 1982. This is yet another Photo Elective shot. I&#8217;m not sure if this was to finish off a roll of film or was part of an assignment. I&#8217;ve heard other people from art school mention a self-portrait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/16\/throwback-thursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[31,3340],"tags":[33,148,158,5,122,137,118,480,336,121],"class_list":["post-19238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-148","tag-analog","tag-joe-williams","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-westville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-50i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20172,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/29\/probably-listening-to-an-8-track-tape\/","url_meta":{"origin":19238,"position":0},"title":"Probably listening to an 8-Track Tape","author":"Joe","date":"December 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This was probably a self-portrait assignment that was part of the photo elective class illustrators had to take at the Philadelphia College of Art. 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