{"441071":{"#nid":"441071","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Where Have All the Axes Gone?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/crawford\u0022\u003EHugh Crawford\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, published an article in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/07\/axe-thoreau-lumberjack-woodchopping\/398597\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E about the transformation of lumberjacks and axes in America.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe says:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year was, by some accounts, the year of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2014\/12\/lumbersexuality-and-its-discontents\/383563\/\u0022 data-omni-click=\u0022r\u0026#039;article\u0026#039;,r\u0026#039;link\u0026#039;,r\u0026#039;0\u0026#039;,r\u0026#039;398597\u0026#039;\u0022\u003Elumbersexual\u003C\/a\u003E\u2014big beard, big plaid, big boots. Although not measured by time spent in the woods, the look\u2019s ultimate accessory would have to be an axe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe story of the modern axe is the story of the American felling axe. Colonists arrived with European patterns\u2014trade axes with narrow polls and bits that curved gracefully from eye to heel. They were effective on much of the timber cut across Europe but were ultimately inadequate for the vast forests and enormous trees the settlers encountered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/07\/axe-thoreau-lumberjack-woodchopping\/398597\/\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-08-27 15:21:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:41","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/07\/axe-thoreau-lumberjack-woodchopping\/398597\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62163":{"id":"62163","type":"image","title":"Hugh Crawford","body":null,"created":"1449176355","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:15","changed":"1475894539","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:19","alt":"Hugh Crawford","file":{"fid":"191414","name":"Hugh_Crawford_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Hugh_Crawford_200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Hugh_Crawford_200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61801,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Hugh_Crawford_200x300_0.jpg?itok=aZjIBCjt"}}},"media_ids":["62163"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}