{"id":137,"date":"2009-05-03T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:03:20","slug":"new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8vPNSVI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/R_-SWKZr7ws\/s1600-h\/rings+on+his+fingers.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331713246465182034\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 217px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8vPNSVI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/R_-SWKZr7ws\/s320\/rings+on+his+fingers.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8T8UzDI\/AAAAAAAABO0\/EZwcuC6IyWA\/s1600-h\/cleanu%5B.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331713239138225202\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 212px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8T8UzDI\/AAAAAAAABO0\/EZwcuC6IyWA\/s320\/cleanu%5B.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8K73MYI\/AAAAAAAABOs\/PpVyM2gsrLM\/s1600-h\/nyc+subway.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331713236720365954\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 212px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4M8K73MYI\/AAAAAAAABOs\/PpVyM2gsrLM\/s320\/nyc+subway.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4KbCZr5BI\/AAAAAAAABOk\/Boc9BPIGgY8\/s1600-h\/breakfast.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331710468470596626\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 320px; height: 212px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sf4KbCZr5BI\/AAAAAAAABOk\/Boc9BPIGgY8\/s320\/breakfast.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I ate breakfast every morning at the same corner restaurant. I always started early, I was living on 88th street. and going to school at NYU. I never took the same route twice, always carried my camera.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>After a while the waiters and the owner asked if I was a photographer. The girl in the photo was also a customer, and the owner confided in me that he would leave his wife for her. Here she is posed with the &#8220;crew&#8221; of the restaurant. I gave everyone a series of photos.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Many years earlier, in college, I had the same problem; taking photographs and arriving on time for class.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ate breakfast every morning at the same corner restaurant. I always started early, I was living on 88th street. and going to school at NYU. I never took the same route twice, always carried my camera. After a while the waiters and the owner asked if I was a photographer. The girl in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[2506,2477],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-new-york-city","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}