{"id":607,"date":"2009-11-21T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-11-21T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T12:27:10","slug":"the-ghosts-of-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"The Ghosts of My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this little book for a while and have included it in my little <a href=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=106\" target=\"_blank\">Zine<\/a> experiment but never blogged about it.<em> The Ghosts of My Friends<\/em> is a quirky variation on the traditional autograph book. This little copy, is completely full, most entries dated around 1918. Published by Dow &amp; Lester it measures 10cm x 17cm. It was compiled by Cecil Henland and originally published around 1906.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-615\" title=\"Ghosts of My Friends\" src=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts_friends1.jpg\" alt=\"Ghosts of My Friends\" width=\"450\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts_friends1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts_friends1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts_friends1-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-609\" title=\"Ghosts of My Friends - page sample\" src=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts2.jpg\" alt=\"Ghosts of My Friends - page sample\" width=\"430\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts2.jpg 430w, https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Ghosts2-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When googling to find out more info (as you do!) I discovered I am not the only one to uncover this wonderful little object! See the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designspongeonline.com\/2008\/07\/the-ghosts-of-my-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\">Design*Sponge<\/a> . There are also some super images of ghostly signatures over at <a href=\"http:\/\/hownow.brownpau.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/ghosts-of-my-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Now Brownpau<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this little book for a while and have included it in my little Zine experiment but never blogged about it. The Ghosts of My Friends is a quirky variation on the traditional autograph book. This little copy, is completely full, most entries dated around 1918. Published by Dow &amp; Lester it measures 10cm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}