{"id":6567,"date":"2010-05-11T20:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:58:16","slug":"number-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/05\/11\/number-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i.History repeats<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When I took this picture the world&#8217;s most famous political address was on its previous coalition government. 1974.<\/p>\n<p>That address is 10 Downing Street, London, SW1.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Britain has a new coalition government, and while my interest in politics compares unfavorably to my interest in bilge water, today&#8217;s UK government cannot possibly be any worse than the one in force when I snapped the picture below.  That one saw me immigrate to the US.  I doubt the current one will have me return.  But I wish them well.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/42.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Number 10, 1974. Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX, D76, 6.5 minutes @ 68F<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was as perfect a day in London as one can imagine. Spring.  The Tube to Green Park, a stroll through that park and St. James&#8217;s Park up Pall Mall to Horseguards&#8217; Parade, and thence to Downing Street, before crazies dictated security and bomb proof jackets. The Leica.  One click.  The picture.<\/p>\n<p>A different time, a different world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30982,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}