{"id":1036,"date":"2016-01-14T09:51:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2016-01-14T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:55:20","slug":"even-god-recycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/even-god-recycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Even God Recycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past fall, I entered in to a conversation with a man named Jerry who sat near me on a downtown Brooklyn bench.  Jerry was very interested in what I do for a living and asked me to teach him any skills I may have.  I told him that I&#8217;d be happy to, gave him my card, but told him that he&#8217;d have to show up sober.  I haven&#8217;t heard back from Jerry yet.  Some weeks later, I photographed people recycling in the Lower East Side during an afternoon walk about a week before Christmas 2015.  There was no particular reason to take the photo other than I liked the composition.  Here is the photograph as an animated illustration and a small portion of Jerry talking about the social contract in U.S. culture&#8230; According to Jerry, we all play a role in the project that is this country and he wants to play a larger role.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POYp-gigxi4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past fall, I entered in to a conversation with a man named Jerry who sat near me on a downtown Brooklyn bench. Jerry was very interested in what I do for a living and asked me to teach him any skills I may have. I told him that I&#8217;d be happy to, gave him [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,502],"tags":[771,851,492,852],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-design","tag-animation","tag-god-recycling","tag-recycling","tag-street-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}