{"id":33861,"date":"2026-08-05T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=33861"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:13:52","slug":"eight-generations-in-two-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/eight-generations-in-two-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Generations in Two Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-eight-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-eight-1.jpg 319w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-eight-1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-eight-1-151x281.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, folks- don&#8217;t mean to clog the in-basket but this was one of those things that popped up when attempting to clean out one of those other things and it got deep fast! I&#8217;m not one of the two slides. It would be easier!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations.jpg 1766w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations-500x275.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-2-generations-1536x844.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wish this one started with a look at the sort of bedraggled little image below on the left. You can see, if you don&#8217;t hoist your laptop or phone up to peer into it, it is a blur of a sort of ochre on gray. Which is not what it once was.<\/p>\n<p>Vic hadChatCPT bring back the original dancing ;ixels and it brought to life what had been described in almost obscure ink:<br \/>\n&#8220;1881.Grandpa and&#8230;.Grandma, Mother, Burr, Walter and Willie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The words were almost unintelligable on the back of the card, written on a dark cardboard backing. Om the front, the captions had almost been worn away but were intelligenbe once one knew what to look for. But what was most amazing was seeing three generations unposed, and in a form of motioned energy some 145 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Which led him to clip that bottom row of real figures from a real family photogrpah to today&#8217;s entree;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-3-generations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-3-generations.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-3-generations-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/080526-3-generations-456x281.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Vic Socotr<br \/>\nWWW.VICSOCOTRA.COM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, folks- don&#8217;t mean to clog the in-basket but this was one of those things that popped up when attempting to clean out one of those other things and it got deep fast! I&#8217;m not one of the two slides. It would be easier! I wish this one started with a look at the sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33867,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33861\/revisions\/33867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}