{"id":1200,"date":"2014-11-09T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me?p=1200"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:24:21","slug":"berlin-wall-25-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Wall Came Down 25 Yrs Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was stationed in Berlin for over two years. I was there to protect the freedom of Berlin.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-834\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Berlin-Freedom-e1430654250311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While in Berlin, I began taking pictures, after being influenced by Gary Bolstad, who was, and is, quite a magnificent photography buff. Black &amp; White film was all I could afford to develop in the military facility darkroom. I came upon the remnants of a fire in a downtown night club. It took quite some time in the dark room to get the large photograph to get the exact exposure to bring it alive. I liked this photo. The next was taken in a park in downtown Berlin. I watched a father and son spend some time together and took some shots. The father noticed and ask if I could sell him copies. I gave him three shots of him and his son. I thought this was rather pensive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken in E.Berlin in a back street.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was stationed in Berlin for over two years. I was there to protect the freedom of Berlin. While in Berlin, I began taking pictures, after being influenced by Gary Bolstad, who was, and is, quite a magnificent photography buff. Black &amp; White film was all I could afford to develop in the military facility &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Berlin Wall Came Down 25 Yrs Ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-whats-happening-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}