{"id":1179,"date":"2015-12-21T06:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:52:58","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-dads-christmas-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1179\/retro-scan-of-the-week-dads-christmas-art","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Dad&#8217;s Christmas Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dad_christmas_art_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dad_christmas_art_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's Dad homemade Christmas Xmas art drawing computer art KoalaPad KoalaPainter Atari 800 Polaroid print - 1985\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A Christmas Tree in the Window<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, my dad bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KoalaPad\" target=\"_blank\">KoalaPad<\/a> drawing tablet for our Atari 800.  Perhaps that very December &#8212; in 1984 or 1985, he drew this scene of the front of our house at Christmas time, complete with a view of our Christmas tree through our living room window.  So proud was he of his creation that he snapped a photo of it with a Polaroid camera, and that&#8217;s the print I am showing to you now.<\/p>\n<p><center><font color=\"red\">Merry Christmas from Vintage Computing and Gaming!<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Polaroid SX-70 print, ca.1985, front ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Did you draw any Christmas art on your computer when you were a kid?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Tree in the Window Back in the day, my dad bought a KoalaPad drawing tablet for our Atari 800. Perhaps that very December &#8212; in 1984 or 1985, he drew this scene of the front of our house at Christmas time, complete with a view of our Christmas tree through our living room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,27,26,10],"tags":[293,72,276,170,168,303,490,595,1316,1317,506,60,1318],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-293","tag-72","tag-art","tag-atari","tag-atari-800","tag-christmas","tag-computer-art","tag-dad","tag-koalapad","tag-koalapainter","tag-polaroid","tag-retro-scan","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}