{"id":5323,"date":"2012-12-09T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2016-12-30T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:54:13","slug":"archiving-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/fantasy-of-flight\/archiving-my-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Archiving my Past!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about a year now I have been working with an archivist I hired to try and organize all the stuff I&#8217;ve saved over the years including; pictures, trophies, artifacts, clothing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great finds were in slides my father had taken when I was a little kid that I had NEVER seen before. \u00a0He was an amateur photographer and\u00a0passed away in 2006. \u00a0My mother was always worried about what to do with all the slides that he took . . . about 100,000 of them!<\/p>\n<p>Since I now had an archivist on staff, I stepped up to the plate for the family and brought everything up from Miami\u00a0to Fantasy of Flight. \u00a0My car was totally loaded with every seat packed to the ceiling.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 545px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-5324 colorbox-5323\" title=\"1 - Dad's Slides\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1-Dads-Slides.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"407\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Suburban loaded down with my Dad&#8217;s slides! The picture is of his mother who used to entertain the troops singing and dancing in WWI like Bob Hope did in WWII.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My dad took a lot of nature photography, animals, and artistic scenes and made a calendar for many years with his best pics. \u00a0I knew there would be a lot of those types of pictures but was hoping for some family shots as well. \u00a0I was not to be disappointed!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 566px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-5326 colorbox-5323\" title=\"2) Baby Kermit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2-Baby-Kermit.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"391\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s a shot of me as a baby. \u00a0I had never seen picture until now!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were a good number of other great shots that I had never seen before of me and my family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 561px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-5327 colorbox-5323\" title=\"3) Kermit Peek a Bo!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/3-Kermit-Peek-a-Bo.jpg\" width=\"561\" height=\"366\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here, a young Kermit plays Peek a Boo for Dad the Cameraman!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently, we brought everything I had saved from everywhere to one spot and began the process of trying to organize things in some fashion. \u00a0I can&#8217;t believe all that I&#8217;ve collected over the years and now realize I will need more space to properly store it. \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing how seeing items can bring back a flood of memories.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to collect stuff for my personal archives as well as for Fantasy of Flight and am beginning to think there will always be job security for my archivist!<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about a year now I have been working with an archivist I hired to try and organize all the stuff I&#8217;ve saved over the years including; pictures, trophies, artifacts, clothing, etc. One of the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-of-flight","category-kermit-weeks","archiving-my-past"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}