{"id":3669,"date":"2015-01-10T21:51:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2015-01-11T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:28:55","slug":"40_days_until_40_day_14_1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/01\/10\/40_days_until_40_day_14_1988.html","title":{"rendered":"40 Days until 40: Day 14, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/16047589050\" title=\"1988 by Brian, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7503\/16047589050_f1e6993972.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" alt=\"1988\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This photo comes from a roll with an assortment of photos of and by my friend Paul, my best friend in the seventh grade. It doesn&#8217;t look like much, but the fact that my t-shirt has some neon colors and a logo on it (I never thought about it, but did this shirt, with its logo for the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coors_Classic\">Coors Classic bike race<\/A>, violate some rule about alcohol-related t-shirts? Wasn&#8217;t that a thing?) as a big step for me. <\/p>\n<p>This was about the time I got heavily into t-shirts from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/80s-T-C-Surf-Designs-T-shirt-Mens-medium-White-\/121541214183\">T &#038; C Surf Design<\/A>, Ocean Pacific, and other other companies that couldn&#8217;t have had anything less to do with a kid from Alaska who hated swimming. <\/p>\n<p>It was a weird time. This photo seems ordinary, but to me, it not only shows what I looked like at age 13, with those awful &#8220;clear&#8221; braces I had that just turned yellow &#8211; thanks, Dr. Day &#8211; but that I had a camera, a friend to goof around with, and the (misguided and strange) beginnings of a sense of personal style besides whatever school clothes my mom bought for me at the beginning of each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo comes from a roll with an assortment of photos of and by my friend Paul, my best friend in the seventh grade. It doesn&#8217;t look like much, but the fact that my t-shirt has some neon colors and a logo on it (I never thought about it, but did this shirt, with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,10,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-nostalgia","category-photos","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}