{"id":1840,"date":"2012-06-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:13:30","slug":"no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"No hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G000055A.3nXqtak\/I0000jPv4vUq9VNs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000jPv4vUq9VNs\/s\/900\/622\/vietnam7jeffrey-A33.JPG\" title=\"No hands\" alt=\"Nguyen Xuan Cuong, who lost his arms to a landmine during the U.S. war against Vietnam, works in his agricultural field in Ha Trach, Vietnam.\" width=\"900\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m way behind on work, deadlines whizzing by, and am stuck in Pasco, Washington, for a five-day meeting. I&#39;m feeling sorry for myself because I want to participate fully in the meeting, I want to spend time visiting with colleagues, and yet I keep sneaking back to the hotel room to crank out text. So I end up feeling sorry for myself. Which of course makes me less productive, exacerbating my existential crisis. It&#39;s times like this that I need to take a deep breath, and remember people like Nguyen Xuan Cuong, who I photographed a few years back in Ha Trach, Vietnam. He lost his arms to a landmine during what the Vietnamese rightly call the &#34;U.S. War.&#34; He and other amazing people I met on that assignment, people who&#39;d been left physically challenged by their history, simply don&#39;t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. Despair, methinks, really is a privilege of class. Sigh.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m way behind on work, deadlines whizzing by, and am stuck in Pasco, Washington, for a five-day meeting. I&#39;m feeling sorry for myself because I want to participate fully in the meeting, I want to spend time visiting with colleagues, and yet I keep sneaking back to the hotel room to crank out text. So [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}