{"id":565,"date":"2009-10-15T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2009-10-15T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:41:46","slug":"the-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"The Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Parisdvd2.jpg\/200px-Parisdvd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/h?ammem\/papr:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28edmp+4038%29%29\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/mbrs\/edmp\/4038t.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The biggest film of the year in 1896 was 47 seconds long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Kiss_%281896_film%29\">The Kiss<\/a> was an <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/inventors\/bledisonvitascope.htm\">Edison Vitascope<\/a> film featuring a scene from a New York stage comedy entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Widow_Jones\">The Widow Jones<\/a>.  The actors were May Irwin and John Rice; May Irwin made a previous (uncredited) appearance here on soupgreens.com as the singer to popularize <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2009\/10\/11\/secret-origins-of-goodbye-booze\/\">Good-Bye, Booze!<\/a> when it first appeared in 1901.  Similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1_Night_in_Paris\">Paris Hilton&#8217;s sex tape<\/a>, the kiss in The Widow Jones was the titillating scandal that made May Irwin&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LinYaA0icIs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LinYaA0icIs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest film of the year in 1896 was 47 seconds long. The Kiss was an Edison Vitascope film featuring a scene from a New York stage comedy entitled The Widow Jones. The actors were May Irwin and John Rice; May Irwin made a previous (uncredited) appearance here on soupgreens.com as the singer to popularize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}