{"id":2125,"date":"2012-11-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:13:03","slug":"helicopter-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/helicopter-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G0000i7qz2w.MW.E\/I0000FNtKiZRQfr4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000FNtKiZRQfr4\/s\/900\/618\/haiti10jeffrey-122-030.JPG\" title=\"Helicopter boy\" alt=\"A boy evacuated from Jacmel, on Haiti&#39;s southern coast, arrives in Port-au-Prince on January 22 aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter and is escorted off the aircraft by a U.S. sailor. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain homeless and hungry in the wake of the country&#39;s devastating January 12 earthquake.\" width=\"900\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just keep following a subject, in case something interesting happens. On this day, I flew on a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, on Haiti&#146;s southern coast. It was a very ecumenical trip: the U.S. military transporting emergency assistance provided by German churches, which was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/image\/I0000Cr28gkwAv6c\" target=\"_blank\">offloaded by Canadian soldiers<\/a> and turned over to a Haitian organization for distribution to quake survivors. On the trip back, we brought with us some Haitian kids who were being evacuated. After landing at the Port-au-Prince airport, the crew carried the kids away from the aircraft. I shot them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/image\/I0000kaaz3ILF22I\" target=\"_blank\">walking away from the helicopter<\/a>, but then hustled after them, because you never know what will happen next. Following on the heels of one crew member, I captured this image of the little boy looking up at the face of the sailor. Lesson: the photo op ain&#146;t over til it&#146;s over.<\/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>Sometimes you just keep following a subject, in case something interesting happens. On this day, I flew on a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, on Haiti&#146;s southern coast. It was a very ecumenical trip: the U.S. military transporting emergency assistance provided by German churches, which was offloaded by Canadian soldiers and turned [&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":1998,"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\/2125"}],"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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}