{"id":725,"date":"2004-01-06T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/straight-edge\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T17:01:56","slug":"straight-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/straight-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Bring Back Captain Billy&#8217;s Whiz Bang Next!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Straight Edgers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/vegetarians.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over at Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107341490495547657\">wondered aloud<\/A> if the term &#8220;straight edge&#8221; dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, as evidenced in these <A href=\"http:\/\/home.gwi.net\/~dnb\/gallery\/vegetarians\/vegetarians.htm\">1906 newspaper illustrations<\/A>.  It&#8217;s for real:  I saw the menu for the Straight Edge Kitchen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/press\/nyeatsout.html\"><I>New York Eats Out<\/I><\/A>, a very cool NYPL exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=Beatrice&#038;isbn=0375726217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Double Fold\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/double.JPG\" width=\"45\" height=\"70\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" \/><\/A>The pictures, by the way, come from the American Newspaper Repository, which was founded by Nicholson Baker. Its origins are recounted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0375726217\"><I>Double Fold<\/I><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin wondered aloud if the term &#8220;straight edge&#8221; dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, as evidenced in these 1906 newspaper illustrations. It&#8217;s for real: I saw the menu for the Straight Edge Kitchen at New York Eats Out, a very cool NYPL exhibit. The pictures, by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}