{"id":1870,"date":"2012-02-18T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:31:04","slug":"weegee-and-winter-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/18\/weegee-and-winter-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Weegee and winter reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1871\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1871\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/18\/weegee-and-winter-reading\/weegee\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1871\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1871\" title=\"weegee\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/weegee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rubber stamp used by Weegee (born Arthur Felig) to sign his photograhs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.icp.org\/museum\/collections\/special\/weegee\/\">exhibit<\/a> of Weegee photographs up at the International Center for Photography through the first week of March. My son went to see it and was blown away. You may think you don&#8217;t know who Weegee is, but if you have a mental image of gritty, black and white NYC in the &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s, you&#8217;re probably remembering a Weegee photo. Here&#8217;s the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weegee\"> link <\/a>to the wiki entry on him.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what does this have to do with winter reading? Well, the genre of &#8220;escapist&#8221; literature I favor is of the gumshoe, Sam Spade or police detective variety&#8230;and, in my mind&#8217;s eye, I see Weegee images when I read Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. Winter is a great time for this sort of reading. Who&#8217;s your favorite detective or mystery writer? Not into this stuff&#8211;okay, tell me what you like to relax with: fantasy? scifi? epic historical novels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an exhibit of Weegee photographs up at the International Center for Photography through the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6210,6211,6209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}