{"id":5724,"date":"2016-12-10T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:31:10","slug":"halftone-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5724","title":{"rendered":"Halftone memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I spent five years delivering the paper (<a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=6669#comment-14906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">these links<\/a> will give you some local flavour). Wednesdays were thickest with ads, Thursdays thinnest. Saturday mornings coldest. The most replayed mental video clip of my young life was an impossible shot from the street to a postage-stamp sized porch which was surely a mile away. My final tally was 2 broken windows and countless dented aluminum doors. I never left them on the lawn, though that would have been quieter.<\/p>\n<p>It started a lifelong fascination with <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/bokeh\/light\/media.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper was staffed by a talented photographer who made a lasting impression. He was allowed to spill acres of beautiful black ink over countless spreads. He left around the time colour was arriving. It was never the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/halftone.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5727\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/halftone.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been writing for the media I used to damage property with. They don&#8217;t have a big budget for this sort of thing; in fact I&#8217;ll be making about what I made as a paperboy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I spent five years delivering the paper (these links will give you some local flavour). Wednesdays were thickest with ads, Thursdays thinnest. Saturday mornings coldest. The most replayed mental video clip of my young life was an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=5724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}