{"id":4280,"date":"2021-12-11T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:23:31","slug":"rockshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/11\/rockshots\/","title":{"rendered":"rockshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/PLAYGUY7-1_005_2.jpg\" title=\"PLAYGUY7-1\" hspace=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/PLAYGUY7-1_005-1.jpg\" title=\"PLAYGUY7-1\" hspace=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to do a fuller post on photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pineshistory.org\/rockshots-by-michael-rock\/\" target=\"_window\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">  Michael Rock, <\/a> and gay greeting card company ROCKSHOTS &#8211; but click that link and it&#8217;s broken! Who can forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/rockshots_Dorothy_01-1.jpg\" target=\"_window\" title=\"Ron Raz on BJland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>\u201cToto, I don\u2019t think we\u2019re in Kansas anymore.\u201d<\/i> <\/a> card??? I know he used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/?s=%22ron+raz%22\" target=\"_window\" title=\"Ron Raz on BJland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ron Raz <\/a> a lot as a model (given the chance, who wouldn&#8217;t??!!), and if you click thru you&#8217;ll see Santa Ron. Michael Rock&#8217;s photos appeared in MANDATE (frequently in 1977, but other years as well), most notably the January 1980 issue (see pic below), including cover; also in at least the January 1983 Honcho, multiple issue of PLAYGUY&#8230;.  Anyone else remember ROCKSHOTS?<\/p>\n<p>oh wait &#8211; the Michael Rock \/ Rockshots article has  been moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pineshistory.org\/the-archives\/rockshots-by-michael-rock\" target=\"_window\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the Archives <\/a> &#8211; yeah!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/mandate1980jan_08_ROCKSHOTS.jpg\" title=\"\" hspace=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping to do a fuller post on photographer Michael Rock, and gay greeting card company ROCKSHOTS &#8211; but click that link and it&#8217;s broken! Who can forget the \u201cToto, I don\u2019t think we\u2019re in Kansas anymore.\u201d card??? I know he used Ron Raz a lot as a model (given the chance, who wouldn&#8217;t??!!), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,103,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers","category-playguy","category-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}