{"id":26816,"date":"2014-04-14T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26816"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:14:06","slug":"the-vinten-merlinlike-in-the-tonight-story-just-posted-i-occasionally-menti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26816","title":{"rendered":"The Vinten Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vinten Merlin<\/p>\n<p>Like in the &#8216;Tonight&#8217; story just posted, I occasionally mention the Vinten Merlin. In case you have never seen one, here you go. This one is on the &#8216;Today&#8217; set in 1A, but as I understand it, all of NBC&#8217;s large studios in New York have one. Beautifully compact and extremely versatile with only one operator needed, these pedestal mounted jib arms became available in the early 90&#8217;s but for some reason, did not catch on. I think Vinten quit making them in the early 2000s, so when you see one in person, take a good look because they are rare birds. Thanks to Dennis Degan for the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/659122304125322\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Vinten-Merlin-Like-in-the-Tonight-story-just-posted-I-occasionally-menti\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/659126210791598\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vinten Merlin Like in the &#8216;Tonight&#8217; story just posted, I occasionally mention the Vinten Merlin. In case you have never seen one, here you go. This one is on the &#8216;Today&#8217; set in 1A, but as I understand it, all of NBC&#8217;s large studios in New York have one. Beautifully compact and extremely versatile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[886,782,771],"class_list":["post-26816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dennis-degan","tag-nbc","tag-vinten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}