{"id":773,"date":"2009-02-27T21:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/02\/27\/pole-vaulting-photo\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:58:34","slug":"pole-vaulting-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/pole-vaulting-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole Vaulting Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a close look at this picture. (Click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6c15562a7080_F4FD\/13764uYMCAathleticeventsmat13764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"13764u YMCA athletic events, mat13764\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"371\" alt=\"13764u YMCA athletic events, mat13764\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6c15562a7080_F4FD\/13764uYMCAathleticeventsmat13764_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>First, try to guess where it was taken.&#160; If you guessed Jerusalem in the 1930s, you &#8216;re right.<\/p>\n<p>Next, tell me what&#8217;s wrong with it.&#160; Unbelievable.&#160; And we think we &#8216;re tough.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I wonder if a photo exists of me anywhere from my pole-vaulting days.&#160; Landing on big mushy pads.&#160; I can say that I water-skiied on the Sea of Galilee, but I never tried pole-vaulting in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph belongs to a collection of photos from 1898-1946 that I&#8217;ve been working on lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a close look at this picture. (Click to enlarge) First, try to guess where it was taken.&#160; If you guessed Jerusalem in the 1930s, you &#8216;re right. Next, tell me what&#8217;s wrong with it.&#160; Unbelievable.&#160; And we think we &#8216;re tough. Third, I wonder if a photo exists of me anywhere from my pole-vaulting\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/pole-vaulting-photo\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}