{"id":2746,"date":"2019-07-21T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/07\/surprised\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T17:37:07","slug":"surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/07\/surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even more than most creative media, photography poses a special challenge to shoot beyond the cliches, to discover \u2013 to &quot;see&quot; \u2013 something one had not been expecting.<\/p>\n<p>As a photographer who&#39;s literally spent decades wandering through the natural world with a camera, this observation by Hanif Kureishi is exactly the sentiment I tried to cultivate in my travels:&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAs a writer, I don\u2019t like to know too much about what I\u2019m doing. I want to sit down at my desk with hope rather than certainty and be surprised.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even more than most creative media, photography poses a special challenge to shoot beyond the cliches, to discover \u2013 to &quot;see&quot; \u2013 something one had not been expecting. As a photographer who&#39;s literally spent decades wandering through the natural world with a camera, this observation by Hanif Kureishi is exactly the sentiment I tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}