{"id":498,"date":"2014-02-09T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:45:46","slug":"lightning-jugglers-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/lightning-jugglers-1882.html","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Jugglers, 1882"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the juvenile amusement at the flowery term<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/dakota_death_trip\/Jerking_Lightning_1382279982.html\"> &#8220;jerking lightning&#8217; <\/a>that appeared in Dakota Death Trip a few months ago, \u00a0here&#8217;s an equally Zeus-like term from 1882:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lightning-jugglers-3-17-1882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Lightning Jugglers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati, March 16.&#8211; The telegraphers&#8217; convention to-day resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the best method of forming a national organization. \u00a0After hearing the views of a majority of the delegates, the committee rose and the convention appointed a committee of five to draft a constitution in accordance with the views presented. \u00a0 The committee has already begun its labors. \u00a0A night session was held, which was principally devoted to an interchange of views on disreputable telegraph schools. \u00a0The convention adjourned at 11 o&#8217;clock, to meet again to-morrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The awe regarding the nascent understanding of electricity &#8212; noting that electric lights were a pretty new idea, making telegraphy most people&#8217;s only personal interaction with loose electrons \u00a0&#8212; is clearly evident in the nicknames given to telegraph operators: they were the IT departments of the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the juvenile amusement at the flowery term &#8220;jerking lightning&#8217; that appeared in Dakota Death Trip a few months ago, \u00a0here&#8217;s an equally Zeus-like term from 1882: The Lightning Jugglers Cincinnati, March 16.&#8211; The telegraphers&#8217; convention to-day resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the best method of forming a national organization. \u00a0After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[266,612,611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}