{"id":2813,"date":"2011-03-31T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2011-03-31T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:04:36","slug":"typewriters-a-new-symbol-of-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Typewriters: A new symbol of cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/typewriter-clubs-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/typewriter-clubs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"typewriter-clubs-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2814\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in November <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2258\">when I had my IBM Selectric III reconditioned<\/a>, I speculated that there ought to be clubs for typewriter enthusiasts. As I posted at the time, &#8220;I\u2019ve been thinking that there ought to be typewriter clubs these days \u2014 for people who still have and use typewriters and who send each other typewritten notes in the mail just for the heck of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/31\/fashion\/31Typewriter.html\">New York Times confirms<\/a> that this is the case. Nor is this a case of old folks like me being sentimental about old technology. Today&#8217;s typewriter clubs, according to the Times, are mostly young folks, members of the literati and technorati. They have typewriter sales, as well as &#8220;type-ins,&#8221; and they send each other notes by snail mail (as I have been doing with a few old friends).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the renewed interest in typewriters seem to be focused on manual typewriters, particularly portables. But it&#8217;s the Selectrics and the office-size typewriters that I really love.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to look at the photo side show attached to the Times article.<\/p>\n<p>My faith in the younger generations just went up a couple of notches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November when I had my IBM Selectric III reconditioned, I speculated that there ought to be clubs for typewriter enthusiasts. As I posted at the time, &#8220;I\u2019ve been thinking that there ought to be typewriter clubs these days \u2014 for people who still have and use typewriters and who send each other typewritten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Typewriters: A new symbol of cool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}