{"id":1897,"date":"2017-06-02T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:10:32","slug":"printing-press-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Printing Press Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1896\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1896\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Typeset Letters\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Typeset-Letters.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Printing Press Letters (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is a wooden bin full of letters for the printing press at Sherbrooke Village, Nova Scotia. \u00a0Look closely and you can see that the letters are backwards. \u00a0For baseball fans the <em>K<\/em>\u00a0 bin is full of batters striking out while looking; Max Scherzer must have been pitching (sorry for the hometown reference).<\/p>\n<p>The printer spells out text in reverse so that it prints correctly. \u00a0You can see an example setup in this post for <a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan&#8217;s Cinnamon\u00a0Rolls<\/a>. \u00a0It must be very hard to not only spell backwards right-to-left, but also do it with reversed letters.<\/p>\n<p>Sherbrooke Village Printery: N45 08 17.65 W61 59 06.04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a wooden bin full of letters for the printing press at Sherbrooke Village,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[497,314,496,491],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova-scotia","tag-letters","tag-nova-scotia","tag-printing-press","tag-sherbrooke-village"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}