{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-27T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-09-22T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:16:07","slug":"the-past-is-another-country-they-do-things-differently-there-leslie-poles-hartley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"<q>The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.<\/q> &mdash; Leslie Poles Hartley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at a recent photograph on-line, and noticed that one of the walls in the background was <em>pastel green<\/em>.  It struck me that pastel green is a color that was very popular in the &#39;50s and in the &#39;60s, but since the &#39;70s almost complete absent from every-day life except for <q>vintage<\/q> appliances and furniture.<\/p> <p>Nor does it seem to be a color popular amongst those who otherwise enjoy such items.  I certainly don't miss it; I wouldn't much care to have any of those pastel green vintage items in my home.  But those attempting to recre\u00e4te the <em>authentic<\/em> look-and-feel of 40-to-50 years ago probably should make greater use of it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was looking at a recent photograph on-line, and noticed that one of the walls in the background was pastel green. It struck me that pastel green is a color that was very popular in the &#39;50s and in the &#39;60s, but since the &#39;70s almost complete absent from every-day life except for vintage appliances [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6],"tags":[60,61,62,63],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","tag-50s","tag-60s","tag-retro","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}