{"id":142318,"date":"2015-08-06T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/lissabryan-deducecanoe-reesh-but-actually\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:36:26","slug":"lissabryan-deducecanoe-reesh-but-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/lissabryan-deducecanoe-reesh-but-actually\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-142318 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/lissabryan-deducecanoe-reesh-but-actually\/attachment\/142319\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_n4gtipxDKD1qzmz7mo1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_n4gtipxDKD1qzmz7mo1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_n4gtipxDKD1qzmz7mo1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lissabryan.tumblr.com\/post\/125622331022\" target=\"_blank\">lissabryan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deducecanoe.tumblr.com\/post\/87384807197\" target=\"_blank\">deducecanoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/reesh.tumblr.com\/post\/87353072244\" target=\"_blank\">reesh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>but actually tho<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are very few pictures of my childhood. Film was expensive and I was an ugly child. Instagram that lunch and your dog doing the thing. Go for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 As a history buff, I approve of\u00a0\u201cselfie culture.\u201d We are the most visually documented generation of all time. When a person takes a selfie, they\u2019re telling the future a story about a moment in time. Their clothing, their makeup, their hairstyle, their accessories, their pose, their background environment\u2026 Even the weather on a particular day! Every bit of that information tells a rich tale about our world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 What I wouldn\u2019t <b><i>give<\/i><\/b> to have an album of Anne Boleyn\u2019s selfies, or even just candid shots of random courtiers. I would pore over every image, as scholars do with the few paintings we have, and make guesses about their world based on items in the background, little quirks of fashion, and the relationships of people in the image.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Every day, we modern folks create a treasure-trove of information for future scholars. We never know what tiny, inconsequential detail captured by a lens will unlock a secret for a researcher. When we record ourselves, we record our culture. We write letters to the future every day. Our humor, our taboos, our social movements, even our memes. (Don\u2019t think for a moment there won\u2019t be a scholar one day who writes a very ponderous tome on Tumblr memes.) Anyone who scoffs and thinks they can determine what scholars of the future will find important is deluding themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I once saw a Victorian picture of a young woman. She was formally posed and unsmiling. But written on the back was a small verse.\u00a0\u201c<i>Those in the future, look upon this, and know in this moment, I was happy.<\/i>\u201d That always haunted me. So, yes, I like looking upon your images today and knowing you\u2019re happy in a particular moment. (After all, that\u2019s what life is, a series of moments.) Capture them. Remember them. Smile when you look back on them. And know that someday, your message may touch someone you\u2019ll never meet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lissabryan: deducecanoe: reesh: but actually tho There are very few pictures of my childhood. Film was expensive and I was an ugly child. Instagram that lunch and your dog doing the thing. Go for it. \u00a0 \u00a0 As a history buff, I approve of\u00a0\u201cselfie culture.\u201d We are the most visually documented generation of all time. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/06\/lissabryan-deducecanoe-reesh-but-actually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8409,261,9219,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142320,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142318\/revisions\/142320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}