{"id":13833,"date":"2010-06-02T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/06\/02\/the-giant-typewriter-eraser-in-the-olympic-sculpture-park-in-seattle\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:00:01","slug":"the-giant-typewriter-eraser-in-the-olympic-sculpture-park-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100602-01\/?p=13833","title":{"rendered":"The giant typewriter eraser in the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/visit\/OSP\/\"> Olympic Sculpture Park<\/a> in Seattle is open and free to the public all year around. (And I&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=657daec0-134e-4edf-90c3-ac57565c478b\"> gotten the heat from the IOC<\/a> over use of the word <i>Olympic<\/i>.)\n One of the works is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/photos\/photo.asp?PhotoID=112017\"> giant typewriter eraser<\/a>. When my friend took her niece (I&#8217;m guessing around ten years old at the time) to visit the park, the girl asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;\n &mdash; <i>Oh, that&#8217;s a typewriter eraser. Back before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001DVXNYK\/?tag=tholneth-20\"> Wite-Out<\/a> or eraser ribbons, this was how you corrected mistakes. This end is the eraser, and you use that end to brush the crumbs off.<\/i>\n The next question was unexpected, but in retrospect, inevitable.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jim_glass\/archive\/2009\/02\/26\/this-thang-called-handwriting.aspx\">What&#8217;s a typewriter<\/a>?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle is open and free to the public all year around. (And I&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t gotten the heat from the IOC over use of the word Olympic.) One of the works is a giant typewriter eraser. When my friend took her niece (I&#8217;m guessing around ten years old at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle is open and free to the public all year around. (And I&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t gotten the heat from the IOC over use of the word Olympic.) One of the works is a giant typewriter eraser. When my friend took her niece (I&#8217;m guessing around ten years old at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}