{"id":168,"date":"2010-01-14T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-01-14T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:50:20","slug":"oh-ellisville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Ellisville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4274440277\/\" title=\"IMG_0228 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4007\/4274440277_7ea587b61c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a burning desire to do a photo project on small towns in Mississippi for a full year now, ever since reading through Eudora Welty&#8217;s <em>Collected Stories<\/em> and studying her photo collections at the same time.  My only problems were lack of time and lack of camera.<\/p>\n<p>I now have the camera.  It isn&#8217;t in the professional league, but it&#8217;s good enough for me, an entry-level camera for the serious amateur.  I haven&#8217;t figured out the time part yet, but I have decided that I will take some time each day to set out walking from wherever I am looking for things to photograph.  Since I&#8217;m more interested in found objects than people or landscapes&#8211;at least for now&#8211;this works out as a plan.  Plus, it gets me away from my desk and enforces a small amount of exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The past few days I&#8217;ve walked around campus.  Today, I headed the opposite direction down Court Street into Ellisville itself.  That&#8217;s when I decided I don&#8217;t have to tour the whole state to come up with a nice quirky collection.  Ellisville is plenty weird enough for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4275150840\/\" title=\"IMG_0226 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4018\/4275150840_e0af767749.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_0226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4275162658\/\" title=\"IMG_0199 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4275162658_e3dee31452.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4275177886\/\" title=\"IMG_0203 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4275177886_713da2ae19.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_0203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not confident enough yet with my camera to join a photo group, but there seems to be no shortage of subject matter.  If I haven&#8217;t forgotten all about photography and taken up knitting or underwater basket weaving instead by the time I learn enough to do more with the camera, maybe I will join a group.  Maybe there are other people in the world who could love Ellisville yard art like I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a burning desire to do a photo project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}