{"id":66,"date":"2007-02-24T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-02-24T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T13:44:21","slug":"armed-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/armed-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try very hard to avoid just repeating what you can and may read elsewhere but this is something I had to highlight.  Photographer Kyle Cassidy has released &#8220;preview photos&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedamerica.org\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.armedamerica.org\/index.html<\/a> from an upcoming book entitled &#8220;Armed in America: Portraits of gun owners in their homes.&#8221;  They are, in a word, stunning.  The American fetish for firearms is something I never understood and though I&#8217;m probably no closer now than before, these pictures moved me to place myself a little closer to those I&#8217;d always feared.<br \/>\nThe thing that really surprised me is how very normally-American all these people look.  Often pictured with their little children or pets in suburban living rooms, these are no gun nuts.  And yet, for a lot of the subjects, toting an assault rifle looks just as natural as a TV remote.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/armed_in_america.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis online exhibition has acted to further solidify my love for portraiture.  There&#8217;s something so intrinsically human about looking at another person without pretension and in their own milieu.  A few weeks ago I blogged about another portrait series that&#8217;s also an internet-photography must-see featuring gangsters in New Guinea and militant Palestinians.  Check that out &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/23\/the-human-face-of-violence\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/23\/the-human-face-of-violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American fetish for firearms is something I never understood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,273],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-art","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}