{"id":11076,"date":"2006-03-08T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/03\/goodbye-to-gordon-parks.html"},"modified":"2006-03-08T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T16:39:18","slug":"goodbye_to_gordon_parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/goodbye_to_gordon_parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to Gordon Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist, self-taught pianist, semi-pro basketball player, composer, director of <i>Shaft<\/i>&#8211;and somehow he still found time to be a groundbreaking photojournalist at Life for more than 20 years.  I didn&#8217;t know the name <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Parks\">Gordon Parks<\/a> before he passed away yesterday at age 93, but since then I&#8217;ve learned a bit about his amazing and far-reaching life.  The NYT offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/08\/arts\/design\/08parks.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">overview<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2006\/03\/07\/arts\/20060308_PARKS_SLIDESHOW_1.html\">slideshow<\/a>; NPR features an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=870441\">audio report<\/a> from Parks&#8217; 90th birthday; and PDN hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdngallery.com\/legends\/parks\/mainframeset.shtml\">gallery<\/a> of his work with accompanying text.  His life spoke to the transformative power of photography, and to the idea of &#8220;Not allowing anyone to set boundaries, cutting loose the imagination and then making the new horizons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist, self-taught pianist, semi-pro basketball player, composer, director of Shaft&#8211;and somehow he still found time to be a groundbreaking photojournalist at Life for more than 20 years. I didn&#8217;t know the name Gordon Parks before he passed away yesterday at age 93, but since then I&#8217;ve learned a bit about his amazing and far-reaching life. [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}