{"id":709,"date":"2008-06-05T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-06-05T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T00:04:44","slug":"not-nostalgic-for-film-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/709","title":{"rendered":"Not nostalgic for film anymore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out for Iowa tomorrow,   and decided to develop the last of the photos I took from when my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/sets\/72057594053465232\/\">Stephanie<\/a> was pregnant (now several years ago). I had shot in black and white,   and have everything I need to develop the film.<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling nostalgic as I pulled out the chemicals, the tank, and the measuring cup. I loved that I still knew the steps by heart. I even went so far as to develop the two rolls I had just like every other roll I&#8217;ve ever developed &#8211; listening to Weezer.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re developing film, you don&#8217;t get to see how the film turned out until it&#8217;s been in the fixer for a bit &#8211; so you know it won&#8217;t degrade. This step comes after about 20 minutes of sloshing chemical around.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened up the tank, I found that the rolls were blank. I think my chemicals had gone bad. They looked all right when I inspected them before using them.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful photographs of a photogenic and glowingly pregnant friend &#8211; gone. My heart hurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out for Iowa tomorrow, and decided to develop the last of the photos I took from when my friend Stephanie was pregnant (now several years ago). I had shot in black and white, and have everything I need to develop the film. I was feeling nostalgic as I pulled out the chemicals, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}