{"id":11663,"date":"2018-05-25T06:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2018-05-23T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:14:47","slug":"a-hard-less-on-a-wet-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-hard-less-on-a-wet-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"a hard lesson, a wet lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11665\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wet-Cameraman-LIFE-Feb.-20-1950-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11665\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wet-Cameraman-LIFE-Feb.-20-1950-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the drink &#8230;<br \/>LIFE Feb. 1950<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In its February 20th issue for 1950, LIFE magazine posted <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Wet-Cameraman-LIFE-Feb.-20-1950-.jpg\">this cheerful article<\/a> about a photographer so busy capturing a shot of unfortunate skaters in London, England that he too broke through the pond ice.<\/p>\n<p>We often think of photography as a low risk occupation. Not so for the war correspondent\/photographer or the news photographer sent world wide to capture the news as it happens!<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to <em>Goldie<\/em> of the website <a href=\"http:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/11\/urbantoronto-photographer-week-goldie\">urbantoronto.ca<\/a> for spotting this photograph and article and taking the time to email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In its February 20th issue for 1950, LIFE magazine posted this cheerful article about a photographer so busy capturing a shot of unfortunate skaters in London, England that he too broke through the pond ice. We often think of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-hard-less-on-a-wet-lesson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[1000,1947,425,613,5,1949,1950,1948],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-ice","tag-life","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-pond","tag-skaters","tag-wet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11669,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}