{"id":2135,"date":"2011-10-12T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:12:14","slug":"seaside-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/seaside-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G0000KxElbE9NWzc\/I0000ExozXooN2_w\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000ExozXooN2_w\/s\/900\/618\/in4jeffrey-035.jpg\" title=\"Seaside morning\" alt=\"Women in the southern Indian village of Ennore gather at the well to collect water for their families.\" width=\"900\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some images remain with me not so much for what happened in the moment of capture, but what transpired afterward. Here&#39;s a photo I took on December 19, 2004. A Sunday morning in the quiet Indian seaside village of Ennore, north of Chennai. I had gone there a few days earlier to document some Methodist Bible Women, and had really liked the village&#39;s ambience and the people&#39;s friendliness. Since I had the following Sunday morning unscheduled, I took a translator and went back at sunrise, and spent three or four hours just walking around, taking photos of normal life: women washing dishes, a man shaving, children playing. These women were filling up their water jugs at a communal pump. Exactly one week later, on the following Sunday morning, the tsunami hit Ennore, by all accounts demolishing the village&#39;s homes. Some of the residents reportedly made it safely to shelters, others did not. The day the tsunami struck, I was back in the U.S., having just flown home. Within a day I was on my way back, headed to nearby Sri Lanka. But I&#39;ve often thought of the people who graciously let me intrude in their lives that quiet morning. And of course I&#39;ve wondered if any of them survived. I&#39;ve since been back to Chennai but didn&#39;t get time to return to Ennore. One of these days, perhaps before the tenth anniversary of the wave, I&#39;ll make some prints and head back to see who I can find.<\/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>Some images remain with me not so much for what happened in the moment of capture, but what transpired afterward. Here&#39;s a photo I took on December 19, 2004. A Sunday morning in the quiet Indian seaside village of Ennore, north of Chennai. I had gone there a few days earlier to document some Methodist [&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":2006,"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\/2135"}],"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=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}