{"id":492,"date":"2004-08-29T03:01:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2004-08-29T03:01:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T03:01:06","slug":"national_constitution_center_photos_verboten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"National Constitution Center: Photos Verboten!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words fail me, today.
\nI took a number of photos during a visit to Philadelphia’s generally well done National Constitution Center<\/a>. Four times, I was told that neither photos, nor videos are allowed. I asked how it was that the National Constitution Center would prohibit photos or videos. A manager was called and told me that:<\/p>\n

Some of the materials are copywritten and that flash photography could be harmful to documents. I agreed that most people don’t know how to turn off their flash when shooting in AUTO mode, but I’ve visited many, many places where photography is permitted without a flash (including the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My better half, Nancy whispered to me that today was not really the day to get “thrown out of the National Constitution Center”. Perhaps I should not be so surprised, when I read things like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Entrance<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
Eldred case<\/a> & Mickey<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
WI Representatives<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CA Representatives<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
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Founding Fathers<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Entrance<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
George Soros<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
Touch Screen<\/font><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Woody Guthrie<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
Linda Chavez<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/td>\n
Voting is Power<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

There’s also this: [pre-emptive interrogations<\/a> – shades of Minority Report<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words fail me, today. I took a number of photos during a visit to Philadelphia’s generally well done National Constitution Center. Four times, I was told that neither photos, nor videos are allowed. I asked how it was that the National Constitution Center would prohibit photos or videos. A manager was called and told me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-electronic-rights","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}