{"id":14164,"date":"2021-01-26T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:19:14","slug":"from-refugee-to-squirrel-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/26\/from-refugee-to-squirrel-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"From refugee to&#8230; squirrel photographer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our kids were born with such voluminous, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/2008\/08\/a_face_full_of_airbags.html\">Dizzy Gillespie-grade<\/a> cheeks that we immediately dubbed them &#8220;The Squirrels,&#8221; and we later gave our van the license plate SQRLPOD. This has nothing to do with anything, but I thought of it fondly upon seeing this charming 1-minute portrait:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Niki Colemont, is a wildlife photographer and a survivor who fled the Rwandan genocide at just four years old, arriving in Belgium as a refugee. The National Geographic 2019 finalist photographer finds peace today in photographing squirrels, who he considers \u201cthe perfect models.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Photograph Squirrels Without Photoshop\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTVfyqvra0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our kids were born with such voluminous, Dizzy Gillespie-grade cheeks that we immediately dubbed them &#8220;The Squirrels,&#8221; and we later gave our van the license plate SQRLPOD. This has nothing to do with anything, but I thought of it fondly upon seeing this charming 1-minute portrait: Niki Colemont, is a wildlife photographer and a survivor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164"}],"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=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}