{"id":2076,"date":"2007-05-01T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2007-05-01T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:35:42","slug":"will-okun-to-africa-with-nichols-kristoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/will-okun-to-africa-with-nichols-kristoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Okun to Africa with Nichols Kristoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proud mom &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/melvasmusingsonjazz.blogspot.com\/\">and jazz DJ &#8212; Melva Okun <\/a>writes to let us know that her son, Will is the teacher winner of <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/marketing\/winatrip\/\">the New York Times Trip to Africa with Nick Kristoff!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/29\/opinion\/29wat-okun.html\">Will&#8217;s essay shows<\/a> that he is certainly a great choice. Will is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjzo.com\">a photographer (his site)<\/a> and a teacher at Westside Alternative High School located in one of the lowest-income communities of Chicago. Will prides himself as someone who seeks <em>&#8220;to capture the happiness and joy that can occur in everyday moments and the beauty that exists within every person, regardless of their income. Most importantly, [he tries] to produce unique portraits that capture the essence of each person.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=0450cf78505f7ee21e1070e3eeeb1a8a2f9c36e4\"><br \/>\nHe explains in this video (from NYTimes).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proud mom &#8212; and jazz DJ &#8212; Melva Okun writes to let us know that her son, Will is the teacher winner of the New York Times Trip to Africa with Nick Kristoff! Will&#8217;s essay shows that he is certainly a great choice. Will is a photographer (his site) and a teacher at Westside Alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}