{"id":656,"date":"2008-02-08T03:34:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/through-the-looking-glass\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:36:20","slug":"through-the-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/through-the-looking-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"through the looking glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I take photos.  Some people like to snap the mountains and the lake and the sun setting behind a grove of really spooky trees.  But I&#8217;ve never seen a landscape that made me want to run home and grab my camera.  I&#8217;d rather sit and take it all in and look up at a sun that shouldn&#8217;t touch my face.  And I&#8217;d rather photograph people.  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/small93.jpg' rel=lightbox title='Through the Looking Glass'><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/small93thumb.jpg' alt='Through the Looking Glass' border=0 \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A picture&#8217;s worth a thousand words but only if there&#8217;s a life behind it.  At least that&#8217;s what I think.  One of these days I&#8217;m gonna be brave the way I wanna be &#8211; and every time I see a stranger on the street with a story in his face I&#8217;m gonna ask if I can make an image of it. <\/p>\n<p>Like the Indian goat farmer with the hand carved <em>something<\/em> on his back.  Or the bald Briton staring up at the Acropolis. Or the old man from the coal town trying to eat a cheese burger.<\/p>\n<p>I like people pictures.  They intrigue me.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I take photos. Some people like to snap the mountains and the lake and the sun setting behind a grove of really spooky trees. But I&#8217;ve never seen a landscape that made me want to run home and grab my camera. I&#8217;d rather sit and take it all in and look up at a<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-loves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}