{"id":1359,"date":"2008-04-09T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2008-04-09T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:10:25","slug":"waiting_for_the_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/waiting_for_the_bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this photo:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaius_loves_donuts.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/zaius_loves_donuts.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, why not? It&#8217;s in groovy black-and-white and has the slightly flattened, zoomed-in perspective that I often shoot with myself. There&#8217;s some awesome mid-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googie_architecture\">googie architecture<\/a> in the background, and it looks like that&#8217;s probably the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randys-donuts.com\/\">Randy&#8217;s Donuts<\/a> to the right. Oh, and there&#8217;s frickin&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Zaius\"><i>Dr. Zaius<\/i><\/a> sitting on a bus-bench in modern-day (well, 1968, anyway) Los Angeles. How could you <i>not<\/i> love this?<\/p>\n<p>I found it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnumphotos.com\/Archive\/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.ViewBoxInsertion_VPage&amp;R=2K7O3RQFS54&amp;RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&amp;CT=Album&amp;SP=Album\">here<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/31\/dennis-stocks-1960s.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, of course. I recommend checking out all of the photos in that set. There&#8217;s a lot of beautiful, nostalgic, and somewhat weird stuff. Be warned, though &#8212; there is some hippie-style nudity. If that sort of thing bothers you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this photo: Why? Well, why not? It&#8217;s in groovy black-and-white and has the slightly flattened, zoomed-in perspective that I often shoot with myself. There&#8217;s some awesome mid-century googie architecture in the background, and it looks like that&#8217;s probably the famous Randy&#8217;s Donuts to the right. Oh, and there&#8217;s frickin&#8217; Dr. Zaius sitting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}