

{"id":26873,"date":"2020-12-19T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=26873"},"modified":"2020-12-19T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T23:56:39","slug":"shoes-dangling-from-a-telephone-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/12\/19\/shoes-dangling-from-a-telephone-wire.html","title":{"rendered":"Shoes Dangling From a Telephone Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from 2011, somewhere around the old Studio Square, if I remember correctly. The camera&#8217;s GPS puts it behind Studio Square, on 37th Street between 35th and 36th Avenues, but I seem to remember it being on 36th Street, in front of the old Beer Hall. Shoes hurled onto telephone wires are kind of a clich\u00e9 subject for a photo, except that you don&#8217;t usually see women&#8217;s shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/12\/19\/shoes-dangling-from-a-telephone-wire.html\/shoes-dangling-from-a-telephone-wire-p1080686\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308413800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shoes Dangling From a Telephone Wire P1080686\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26874\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?resize=1080%2C810&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this whilst milling around one relic from one of my stagnated projects: <a href=\"https:\/\/et.13floor.sorabji.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">et.13floor.sorabji.com<\/a>. I bought a lifetime license for a bunch of WordPress themes and embarked on the task of filling them all with content, not just to fill vessels but to become fluent in the idiosyncrasies of the themes themselves. I think I had in mind that having a stash of ready-made themes would create some kind of advantage in becoming a WordPress site builder. It never got anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>That particular theme, called &#8220;13th Floor&#8221;, I found to be unattractive as hell, at least on the surface.<\/p>\n<link rel='stylesheet' id='all-css-3270287fb3d5c6901d09b0fcc3a6447f' href='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/a9a1e5338e.min.css' type='text\/css' media='all' \/>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/17ddee82e5.min.js'><\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" id=\"jquery-core-js\" src=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-includes\/js\/jquery\/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1\"><\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" id=\"osm-map-startup-js-extra\">\nvar translations = {\"openlayer\":\"open layer\",\"openlayerAtStartup\":\"open layer at startup\",\"generateLink\":\"link to this map with opened layers\",\"shortDescription\":\"short description\",\"generatedShortCode\":\"to get a text control link paste this code in your wordpress editor\",\"closeLayer\":\"close layer\",\"cantGenerateLink\":\"put this string in the existing map short code to control this map\"};\n\/\/# sourceURL=osm-map-startup-js-extra\n<\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/3a08fd3e94.min.js'><\/script>\n\n        <div id=\"map_ol3js_1\"\n       class=\"osm-map-container undefined\"\n             data-map_name=\"undefined\"\n             data-map=\"map_ol3js_1\"\n             data-autoshow=\"no\"\n             style=\"width:95%;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:450px;\n                    display:block;\n                    overflow:hidden;\n                    border:thin solid;\n                    background-image: url(https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/plugins\/osm\/);\n                    background-repeat: no-repeat;\n                    background-position: center;\n                    position: relative;\">\n          <div id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup\" class=\"ol-popup\">\n            <a href=\"#\" id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup-closer\" class=\"ol-popup-closer\"><\/a>\n            <div id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup-content\"><\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t  vectorM['map_ol3js_1'] = [];\n\t        \n        var raster = getTileLayer(\"osm\",\"NoKey\");\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t  var map_ol3js_1 = new ol.Map({\n\t\t\t\tinteractions: ol.interaction.defaults.defaults({mouseWheelZoom:false}),\n\t\t\t\tlayers: [raster],\n\t\t\t\ttarget: \"map_ol3js_1\",\n\t\t\t\tview: new ol.View({\n\t\t\t\t  center: ol.proj.transform([-73.9254,40.7552], \"EPSG:4326\", \"EPSG:3857\"),\n\t\t\t\t  zoom: 19\n\t\t\t\t})\n\t\t\t  });\n\t\t\t  osm_addMarkerLayer(map_ol3js_1,-73.9254,40.7552,\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/plugins\/osm\/icons\/mic_black_camera_01.png\",-16,-41,\"<p><\/p>\") ; \naddControls2Map(map_ol3js_1,0,0,3,0,5,6,7,0,1);\nosm_addPopupClickhandler(map_ol3js_1,  \"map_ol3js_1\"); \nosm_addMouseHover(map_ol3js_1); <\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from 2011, somewhere around the old Studio Square, if I remember correctly. The camera&#8217;s GPS puts it behind Studio Square, on 37th Street between 35th and 36th Avenues, but I seem to remember it being on 36th Street, in front of the old Beer Hall. Shoes hurled onto telephone wires are kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shoes-Dangling-From-a-Telephone-Wire-P1080686-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6Zr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26877,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions\/26877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}