{"id":4462,"date":"2012-04-09T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T21:20:41","slug":"the-story-of-the-death-and-rebirth-of-polaroid-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Death (and Rebirth) of Polaroid Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2012\/04\/07\/the-story-of-the-death-and-rebirth-of-polaroid-film\/\">Harry McCracken:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In 2008, Polaroid discontinued a product which seemed to be pretty much obsolete in the digital age: instant film. Except that it wasn\u2019t obsolete at all. A lot of people still liked taking Polaroid photos, and found things in the medium which digital couldn\u2019t match.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nOne of them was Dr. Florian Kaps, an Austrian fan who missed Polaroid film so much that he spearheaded an effort to buy a shuttered Polaroid factory in the Netherlands and restart production. His aptly named Impossible Project now sells new film for classic Polaroid cameras, operates gallery\/stores in multiple countries and generally makes the world a better and more interesting place.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry McCracken: In 2008, Polaroid discontinued a product which seemed to be pretty much obsolete in the digital age: instant film. Except that it wasn\u2019t obsolete at all. A lot of people still liked taking Polaroid photos, and found things in the medium which digital couldn\u2019t match. One of them was Dr. Florian Kaps, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}