{"id":16772,"date":"2019-04-05T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16772"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:21:34","slug":"opera-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16772","title":{"rendered":"Opera Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16774\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16774\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Glasses\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16774\" data-wp-pid=\"16774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190405_163634.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera Glasses<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know for sure but I think these old opera glasses belonged to my Uncle Ralph and his wife, Aunt Florence. Technically my great uncle and aunt, because he was my grandfather&#8217;s brother. Assuming that&#8217;s where they came from, I have to assume also that they went to the theatre from time to time. I can&#8217;t say that I knew them well. They lived in New Jersey and he died when I was only ten years old. He grew up in the west, having been born in what is now a ghost town in a mining area of Nevada. After earning an undergraduate degree in Utah, he went to St Johns College in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he earned a B.A. degree and a year later a B.Sc. degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know for sure but I think these old opera glasses belonged to my Uncle Ralph and his wife, Aunt Florence. Technically my great uncle and aunt, because he was my grandfather&#8217;s brother. Assuming that&#8217;s where they came from, I have to assume also that they went to the theatre from time to time. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16772\">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":[414,759,356,474,699,1620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772"}],"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=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16775,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions\/16775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}