{"id":96,"date":"2017-01-04T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:47:30","slug":"today-in-history-january-4-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/2017\/01\/04\/today-in-history-january-4-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: January 4, 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC5 reporter Brad Wright traveled to El Paso,Texas on January 4, 1981 to report on President-elect Ronald Reagan&#8217;s meeting with Mexico President Jose Lopez Portilla. This segment was digitized from the original 3\/4 inch analog source tape, and shows many examples of tape degradation which interfere with the both the picture and sound quality. Footage recorded onto 3\/4 tape, also called &#8220;U-matic&#8221; tape, often displays significant degradation, and is a major preservation priority for archivists and librarians.Although this footage is severely compromised, it was able to be saved before a total loss.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc503108\/m1\/embed\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc503108\/\">[News Clip: Reagan\/ Portilla]<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/texashistory.unt.edu\">The Portal to Texas History<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC5 reporter Brad Wright traveled to El Paso,Texas on January 4, 1981 to report on President-elect Ronald Reagan&#8217;s meeting with Mexico President Jose Lopez Portilla. This segment was digitized from the original 3\/4 inch analog source tape, and shows many examples of tape degradation which interfere with the both the picture and sound quality. Footage&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/2017\/01\/04\/today-in-history-january-4-1981\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Today in History: January 4, 1981\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gxVN-1y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/yesterdays-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}