{"id":11741,"date":"2017-01-27T21:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11741"},"modified":"2017-02-03T20:06:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T01:06:46","slug":"rotary-dial-wall-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11741","title":{"rendered":"Rotary Dial Wall Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11743\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11743\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Rotary Dial Wall Phone\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743\" data-wp-pid=\"11743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_20170127_135524.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotary Dial Wall Phone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A week or two ago I got a call from Ben, our pastor, asking if by any chance I had an oldish phone, preferably one with a rotary dial. I&#8217;m not sure why he called me in particular. He wasn&#8217;t even sure why he called me. It&#8217;s true that we&#8217;re in the upper quintile or ages at church and younger people were less likely to have such a thing. And of course I <em>do<\/em> have a rotary dial phone.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the exact phone I grew up with but it&#8217;s exactly like two phones we had in our house when I was in high school, when I started using the phone regularly. There was a white version of this same phone in the kitchen and a black one, just like this, in the basement. We also had a regular table-top version, also rotary dial, in the hall. The one in the basement is still there.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge for this photograph was to get the dial in motion. I used the flash to freeze it but also a long exposure so that it&#8217;s a bit blurred. It was 1\/3 second at f\/3.5 with the camera on a delay timer so I could press the shutter and then dial the phone and get my hand out of the way just in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or two ago I got a call from Ben, our pastor, asking if by any chance I had an oldish phone, preferably one with a rotary dial. I&#8217;m not sure why he called me in particular. He wasn&#8217;t even sure why he called me. It&#8217;s true that we&#8217;re in the upper quintile or &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}