{"id":919,"date":"2008-09-22T14:09:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=919"},"modified":"2018-11-12T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:13:07","slug":"vintage-matchbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/vintage-matchbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Matchbooks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/matchbook_1.jpg\" alt=\"matchbook_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/matchbook_2.jpg\" alt=\"matchbook_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/matchbook_3.jpg\" alt=\"matchbook_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Doing online image research has become so easy\u2026 it almost seems wrong. A quick search for \u201cvintage matchbooks\u201d using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compfight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compfight<\/a> (my favorite <em>flickr\u2122<\/em> search tool of late) brought up these beauties (among hundreds more, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulsmith\/sets\/72157594529962958\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stewf\/sets\/72157594271196699\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soylentg\/sets\/72157604824748887\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olivander\/sets\/795333\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). I love old paper ephemera (such as matchbooks)\u2014methinks the considerable limitations of scale, art creation, and printing techniques in early times simply served to raise the design bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada Doing online image research has become so easy\u2026 it almost seems wrong. A quick search for \u201cvintage matchbooks\u201d using Compfight (my favorite flickr\u2122 search tool of late) brought up these beauties (among hundreds more, such as here, here, here and here). I love old paper ephemera (such as matchbooks)\u2014methinks the considerable limitations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,9,16,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16766,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/16766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}