{"id":12719,"date":"2008-04-07T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/remembering-photographer-dith-pran.html"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T11:45:09","slug":"remembering_photographer_dith_pran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/remembering_photographer_dith_pran\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering photographer Dith Pran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photojournalist and humanitarian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dith_Pran\">Dith Pran<\/a>, survivor of and witness to Cambodia&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087553\/\">Killing Fields<\/a>&#8221; period, passed away last week.&#160; The NY Times, for which Mr. Dith reported with his friend and colleague Sid Schanberg, features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/31\/nyregion\/31dith.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">remembrance of his life<\/a>, along with a selection of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/03\/31\/nyregion\/20080331_DITH_index.html\">photos<\/a>.&#160; Perhaps most interesting, though, is the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/multimedia\/20080320_DITH_PRAN_LAST_WORD_FEATURE\/#section1\">Last Word<\/a>&#8221; video feature in which Dith speaks about his life and the need to remain vigilant lest the horrors he witnessed be repeated.&#160; I found the feature to be six minutes very well spent. <\/p>\n<p>[Update: On a related note, see the NPPA&#8217;s story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nppa.org\/news_and_events\/news\/2008\/03\/lost.html\">Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2008\/04\/four-photojourn.html\">Via<\/a>]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photojournalist and humanitarian Dith Pran, survivor of and witness to Cambodia&#8217;s &#8220;Killing Fields&#8221; period, passed away last week.&#160; The NY Times, for which Mr. Dith reported with his friend and colleague Sid Schanberg, features a remembrance of his life, along with a selection of his photos.&#160; Perhaps most interesting, though, is the &#8220;Last Word&#8221; video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}