{"id":5598,"date":"2013-05-22T23:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T04:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:29:10","slug":"sowing-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"Sowing Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8220;To change a community, you have to change the soil.&#8221; &#8211; Ron Finley<\/h6>\n<p><object data=\"http:\/\/sif.net\/sif-slides\/photoclass\/soundslider.swf?size=1&amp;format=xml&amp;embed_width=450&amp;embed_height=300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"soundslider\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/sif.net\/sif-slides\/photoclass\/soundslider.swf?size=1&amp;format=xml&amp;embed_width=450&amp;embed_height=300\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank the students I had the chance to meet and work with at Westside Academy at Blodgett this year. We took a journey and learned from each other. After the first day I thought a lot about the Tony Danza Book,\u00a0 <em>I&#8217;d Like to\u00a0Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We did photo walks, technical research, contests and model shoots, and their skill levels continued to rise to the challenge. But soon I noticed\u00a0that the children\u00a0were teaching me as much about creativity and expression\u00a0as I taught them about photography. Visiting the Westside neighborhood daily was an eye-opening experience. The assignment helped me become a better photographer and a better person.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a special shout-out\u00a0to Ms. Darby (the program director), Mr. Hicks (the principal), and Syracuse City School District alum Adrian Sicam (the multi-talented artist who allowed SIF\u00a0to use his music for this piece).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To change a community, you have to change the soil.&#8221; &#8211; Ron Finley I&#8217;d like to thank the students I had the chance to meet and work with at Westside Academy at Blodgett this year. We took a journey and learned from each other. After the first day I thought a lot about the Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[2524,2864,2863,861,26,2865,1213,5002,2866,820,566,2862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}