{"id":44968,"date":"2011-11-08T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:20","slug":"niagara-on-the-lake-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2011\/niagara-on-the-lake-flickr\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara on the Lake | Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I take photos of abandoned houses?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the colour&#8230; I think at first. But I know that&#8217;s not a real explanation. There is a\u00a0loneliness\u00a0in those places. Like people who love lighthouses. But lighthouses aren&#8217;t as interesting to me. I like the old places, showing signs of weathering and history. This love for abandoned buildings says something about me. I&#8217;m not sure what exactly and maybe I don&#8217;t really want to know. It&#8217;s not a good thing to know yourself too well really. To be that far inside your own head.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think my photos are giving the places life. Keeping their memory, showing they were here even as they fade away from our present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thatgrrl\/6196775522\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6196775522_0be1ba1534_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thatgrrl\/6196775522\/in\/photostream\">Niagara on the Lake | Flickr &#8211; Photo Sharing!<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2011\/niagara-on-the-lake-flickr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Niagara on the Lake | Flickr\"><p>Why do I take photos of abandoned houses? It&#8217;s the colour&#8230; I think at first. But I know that&#8217;s not a real explanation. There is a\u00a0loneliness\u00a0in those places. Like people who love lighthouses. But lighthouses aren&#8217;t as interesting to me. I like the old places, showing signs of weathering and history. This love for abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,62],"tags":[8,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75794,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968\/revisions\/75794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}