{"id":26490,"date":"2014-02-10T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=26490"},"modified":"2014-01-26T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:38:05","slug":"jacob-riis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/02\/10\/jacob-riis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Riis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A pioneering reformer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Countless Americans owe their decent living standards to the pioneering social reformer and photographer, Jacob Riis, a naturalized American born in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>His revolutionary use of photography to highlight the plight of New York&#8217;s poorest residents came to the attention of Teddy Roosevelt and between them these two reformers arguably did more for the poor than any one before or since.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2014\/01\/how-the-other-half-lives-the-tenements-of-new-york\/ target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Riis.jpg\" width=\"845\" height=\"686\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Click the image for more.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Click the image for The Retronaut blog which features a comprehensive collection of Riis&#8217;s many harrowing images which helped change America for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering reformer. Countless Americans owe their decent living standards to the pioneering social reformer and photographer, Jacob Riis, a naturalized American born in the Netherlands. His revolutionary use of photography to highlight the plight of New York&#8217;s poorest residents came to the attention of Teddy Roosevelt and between them these two reformers arguably did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/02\/10\/jacob-riis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacob Riis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26492,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490\/revisions\/26492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}