{"id":14984,"date":"2008-10-29T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14984"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T22:00:47","slug":"little-big-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/29\/little-big-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Big Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/10\/27\/shorelines-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this week<\/a>, during Sunday&#8217;s mini-reunion of editors and writers from my high-school newspaper, one of the attendees brought along a disk containing scans of many back issues of that student newspaper, <i>Shorelines<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The cover of the October 22, 1971 issue&#151;published when I was 16&#151;featured the photo of me that you see at right in which I&#8217;m standing next to my social studies teacher, Daniel Weitz. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DanielWeitzScottEdelman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DanielWeitzScottEdelman-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"DanielWeitzScottEdelman\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DanielWeitzScottEdelman-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DanielWeitzScottEdelman.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No story accompanied the photo; I guess the staff just thought that the sight of a student towering over his teacher was amusing.<\/p>\n<p>The  jacket I&#8217;m wearing&#151;decorated with a &#8220;War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things&#8221; patch on one arm, a peace symbol made up of studs on the back, and other hippie fashion accoutrements (I think that&#8217;s a &#8220;Frodo Lives&#8221; button on my chest, though the photo is too grainy for me to tell for sure)&#151;can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/07\/23\/im-comic-con-bound\/\" target=\"_blank\">seen in other photos of the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that jacket no long exists&#151;though I do still have one of my dashikis and a few of my headbands.  And with Halloween coming up, who knows?  It might be time to wear them again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote earlier this week, during Sunday&#8217;s mini-reunion of editors and writers from my high-school newspaper, one of the attendees brought along a disk containing scans of many back issues of that student newspaper, Shorelines. The cover of the October 22, 1971 issue&#151;published when I was 16&#151;featured the photo of me that you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[309,506],"class_list":["post-14984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-high-school","tag-shorelines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14987,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14984\/revisions\/14987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}