{"id":18922,"date":"2022-01-06T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18922"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:00:08","slug":"photography-a-choice-of-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/photography-a-choice-of-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: &#8220;A Choice of Weapons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 16 (!) years ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/goodbye_to_gordon_parks\/\">noted<\/a> the passing of &#8220;novelist, self-taught pianist, semi-pro basketball player, composer, director of\u00a0<em>Shaft<\/em>\u2013who somehow he still found time to be a groundbreaking photojournalist at Life for more than 20 years&#8221; Gordon Parks. Now HBO is streaming &#8220;A Choice of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks,&#8221; covering his work &amp; that of those he&#8217;s inspired to bear witness:<\/p>\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=\"A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks | Official Trailer | HBO\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZehOkTyrgY?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>Nearly 16 (!) years ago I noted the passing of &#8220;novelist, self-taught pianist, semi-pro basketball player, composer, director of\u00a0Shaft\u2013who somehow he still found time to be a groundbreaking photojournalist at Life for more than 20 years&#8221; Gordon Parks. Now HBO is streaming &#8220;A Choice of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks,&#8221; covering his work &amp; that [&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\/18922"}],"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=18922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18923,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions\/18923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}