{"id":1925,"date":"2004-10-18T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/18\/\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T18:11:50","slug":"1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/1925\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/homeless-bag.jpg\" alt=\"contents of a homeless persons bag\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~ds8s\/moyra\/identity.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Peek inside the bags of London&#8217;s homeless<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;With the Identity Kit series shown here, I have attempted to portray the gross poverty of the dispossessed by inviting some of the homeless men on London&#8217;s streets to display their belongings &#8211; those carried in their pockets, or in a bag.<\/strong> The individuals&#8217; participation in the arrangement of their possessions, and their willingness to lay them open for external scrutiny, is a statement from the heart of their perilous and impecunious position. (As one young man, Darren, stated: These are all my worldly goods.)&#8221; <em>~&nbsp;Moyra&nbsp;Peralta<\/em><br \/>(link found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtbw.net\/geisha\/\" rel=\"external\">geisha asobi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~ds8s\/moyra\/mp-c04.html\" rel=\"external\">This one in particular<\/a> really struck a chord with me &#8211; all the contents perfectly laid out in a balanced arrangement. Unworn wristwatch, glasses, peppermints, pen just in case, Big Issue VIP badge, nailclippers for grooming&#8230; it could have been my Pieter \ud83d\ude41 Im sure most of us would be reminded of someone we cherish through some of the images&#8230; remember that next time you walk past a homeless person. It could happen to you, at any time, after a single life-shattering experience. Yes even you. So please stop and show some recognition and attention next time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peek inside the bags of London&#8217;s homeless &#8220;With the Identity Kit series shown here, I have attempted to portray the gross poverty of the dispossessed by inviting some of the homeless men on London&#8217;s streets to display their belongings &#8211; those carried in their pockets, or in a bag. The individuals&#8217; participation in the arrangement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}