{"id":423,"date":"2014-05-25T07:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.wordpress.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2014-05-25T07:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T13:35:06","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/taking-a-break-matted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-424\" src=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/taking-a-break-matted.jpg?resize=600%2C894\" alt=\"Taking a Break (Matted)\" width=\"600\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/taking-a-break-matted.jpg?w=671 671w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/taking-a-break-matted.jpg?resize=201%2C300 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, I began taking a series of photographs &#8220;From the Balcony.&#8221; The street below is busy with traffic, security guards, pizza deliveries, people walking dogs, fitness folks going to the gym \u2014 across the street from a small walk-through mall. Observing from the balcony, one is able to watch, unobtrusively, the daily patterns\u00a0and activities of the neighborhood. This\u00a0gentleman\u00a0can be seen at various posts at all hours of the day. Frequently seen late into the evening and very early the next\u00a0morning, he is a constant and staid fixture. While this photograph might suggest his unapproachability, grumpiness, with\u00a0an expression of contemplation; he is always ready with a genuine, broad smile and a greeting of Buenos Dias, Tardes, or Noches, depending on the time of day. Always attired the same each day, I found him taking a break, ironically on his feet and he is on his feet all day, during a period of inactivity. His presence and appearance in stark relationship to the surrounding, pitted and worn concert of the loading dock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/digimarc.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/digimarc.jpg?resize=94%2C60\" alt=\"Digimarc\" width=\"94\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/fluer_de_lis-drop-shadow-e1395687717503.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-356\" src=\"http:\/\/boucherphotographie.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/fluer_de_lis-drop-shadow-e1395687717503.png?resize=45%2C45\" alt=\"Fluer_de_Lis (Drop Shadow)\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I began taking a series of photographs &#8220;From the Balcony.&#8221; The street below is busy with traffic, security guards, pizza deliveries, people walking dogs, fitness folks going to the gym \u2014 across the street from a small walk-through mall. Observing from the balcony, one is able to watch, unobtrusively, the daily patterns\u00a0and activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[28,49,50,101,102,161,169,182],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facespeople","tag-boucher-photographie","tag-dave-boucher","tag-dave-boucher-photographie","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-city","tag-staid","tag-taking-a-break","tag-village-streets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51QJU-6P","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}