{"id":2408,"date":"2017-10-23T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2017-10-22T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:13:41","slug":"musket-organ-springfield-armory-national-historic-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Musket Organ, Springfield Armory National Historic Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2404\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2404\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ-768x1254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Musket-Organ-627x1024.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musket Organ (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We spent a few days in Springfield on a recent trip to western Massachusetts. \u00a0Being a National Park aficionado, I had to spend time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/spar\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Springfield Armory National Historic Site<\/a>. \u00a0Photography wise, the big draw at the armory is the so called <em>Musket Organ <\/em>shown above.<\/p>\n<p>The first afternoon I spent about an hour at the armory with my wife. \u00a0Of course, this was nowhere near enough time for a photographer, so I returned the next day while my wife was doing other things. \u00a0I spent close to three hours in the armory looking at the displays but mostly photographing these muskets. \u00a0There are just so many detailed compositions in this rack of muskets that I could not stop working my camera.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third national historic site in Massachusetts that I have visited that would keep a photographer happy for hours on end. \u00a0Along with Springfield Armory, <a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saugus Ironworks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lowell<\/a> national historic sites are worth a day apiece during any tour of Massachussetts.<\/p>\n<p>Springfield Armory National Historic Site: N42 06 27.73 W72 34 52.95<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a few days in Springfield on a recent trip to western Massachusetts. \u00a0Being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[466,636,618,638,637],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts","tag-musket-organ","tag-photography","tag-springfield","tag-springfield-armory-national-historic-site"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","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=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}