{"id":2993,"date":"2013-10-14T19:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2013-10-14T19:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:48:34","slug":"new-photo-of-john-t-frye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"New Photo of John T. Frye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JTF_1948.jpg\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto\" height=\"731\" alt=\"JTF_1948.jpg\" width=\"499\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reader George Cohn sent me a photo of John T. Frye that I had not seen before. It&#8217;s from the May, 1948 issue of <em>Radio News<\/em>, which contained the second installment of his <em>very<\/em> long-running &#8220;Mac&#8217;s Service Shop&#8221; column. Assuming the photo was recent when published, Frye would have been 38.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t recognize his name, John T. Frye was the author of the Carl &amp; Jerry educational stories from <em>Popular Electronics<\/em>, &#8220;Phone Phunnies&#8221; from <em>QST<\/em>, and a whole metric passel of other things in other places, including two books on tube-era radio servicing that from what I can tell have passed into the public domain. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copperwood.com\/carlandjerry.htm\" target=\"_blank\">my article on Frye and his creations Carl &amp; Jerry<\/a>. I republished all 119 stories in five books several years ago (plus one new storyI wrote myself, and another one from the late George Ewing WA8WTE) and they&#8217;re still selling. Frye was a paraplegic who never walked, and how he did what he did in his life is one of the great success stories of disabled people who just didn&#8217;t let anything get them down. Legs? We don&#8217;t need no steenking <em>legs!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader George Cohn sent me a photo of John T. Frye that I had not seen before. It&#8217;s from the May, 1948 issue of Radio News, which contained the second installment of his very long-running &#8220;Mac&#8217;s Service Shop&#8221; column. Assuming the photo was recent when published, Frye would have been 38. For those who don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,45,16],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-electronics","tag-ham-radio","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}