{"id":4483,"date":"2012-10-07T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2012-10-07T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:29:10","slug":"poor-money-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"THEY&#8217;RE NOT POOR, THEY JUST DON&#8217;T HAVE MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" background=\"#333333\" width=\"425\" height=\"279\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"si=254&#038;contentValue=50132641&#038;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=7424580n\" \/><br \/>\n  Here is the story of a humble, intelligent, articulate, man. My favorite movie written and directed by Michael Powell &#8220;I Know Where I&#8217;m Going&#8221; contains the line : &#8220;They&#8217;re not poor, They just don&#8217;t have money&#8221;. When I first saw the movie, it was a revelation for me that someone else had the same thought. Over the years I have met a few more like minded people, some very much like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8334-504803_162-57527446-10391709\/rodriguez-unplugged\/?pageNum=2&#038;tag=next\">Rodriguez<\/a>. But their story was never quite so complete, nor publicized.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNomqxjRYlw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been one of the recurring themes in my photography as well; the dignity of man. We make it hard for a poor man to have dignity. If I photograph Ted Turner, Russell Coutts, or a famous actor or actress, it can immediately generate interest. But the story of the everyday man leading an everyday life does not. The is no glamour; I will freely admit. The story of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/herbert-vogel-unlikely-art-collector-and-benefactor-of-national-gallery-dies-at-89\/2012\/07\/22\/gJQANqOf2W_story.html\">Herbert Vogel<\/a> fits here as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the story of a humble, intelligent, articulate, man. My favorite movie written and directed by Michael Powell &#8220;I Know Where I&#8217;m Going&#8221; contains the line : &#8220;They&#8217;re not poor, They just don&#8217;t have money&#8221;. When I first saw the movie, it was a revelation for me that someone else had the same thought. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THEY&#8217;RE NOT POOR, THEY JUST DON&#8217;T HAVE MONEY<\/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":[1413],"tags":[2535,1468],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-music","tag-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}