{"id":165,"date":"2004-06-14T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/14\/naval_disasters_on_postcards_please.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:21:59","slug":"naval_disasters_on_postcards_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/14\/naval_disasters_on_postcards_please.html","title":{"rendered":"Naval Disasters on Postcards, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a trip yesterday to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.quassy.com\">Quassy<\/A>, a nice little amusement park in central Connecticut, to check out their <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.photobooth.net\/locations\/index.php?locationID=6\">photobooth<\/A>.  I also stopped in Meriden for what I thought was a big postcard sale, but turned out to be a mid-sized stamp sale with a few postcards on the side in a conference room in the far reaches of a very much under renovation hotel.<\/p>\n<p>I observed stamp collectors and dealers for awhile, which is always the most fascinating part about a show like that, and my desire to make a documentary about postcard collectors and dealers was rekindled.  <\/p>\n<p>In other news, two great UK records were broken this weekend.  A man finally beat all of the horses in the great <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Wales | Mid Wales | History made as man beats horse\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/mid\/3801177.stm\">&#8220;Man vs. Horse&#8221; race in Wales<\/a>, and Richard Branson broke a 40 year old record for the <a title=\"CBBC Newsround | UK | World record for riding the waves\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/cbbcnews\/hi\/uk\/newsid_3805000\/3805825.stm\">fastest crossing of the English Channel<\/A> by amphibious car.  Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a trip yesterday to Quassy, a nice little amusement park in central Connecticut, to check out their photobooth. I also stopped in Meriden for what I thought was a big postcard sale, but turned out to be a mid-sized stamp sale with a few postcards on the side in a conference room in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noted","category-photobooths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}