{"id":1105,"date":"2009-04-06T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2010-07-24T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:49:24","slug":"the-leica-user-group-assignment-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"The Leica User Group March Assignment: Local evidence of economic downturn\u2014scene 1, take 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About a month ago a number of LUG <a href=\"http:\/\/leica-users.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/lug\" target=\"_blank\">(Leica User Group)<\/a> members thought it worthwhile to take on an occasional &#8220;assignment.&#8221; This group of both amateur and professional photographers, from around the world, will bring an interesting international flavor to any topic. I&#8217;ve posted a list of contributors with links to their contributions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/lug_assignment\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So here&#8217;s my first take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/lug_assignment\/LUG%20assign%2001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">LUG Assignment for March &#8220;Document the effects of the worldwide economic downturn, as you see it unfolding, in your city, town, village, social group or family.<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0(the link will take you to a pdf for viewing or download)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This, my &#8220;first take,&#8221; does not feel complete. I don&#8217;t feel that I&#8217;ve gotten into the subject as deeply as I&#8217;d like. It still feels like a work in progress. The deadline, for me, has moved from March 31 to &#8220;whenever it&#8217;s finished.&#8221; I&#8217;ll continue to work this subject; meet and interview people; observe new evidence of the condition of our local economy; whether improving or declining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you have a story to tell and live in the Greater Milwaukee area (Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties). I&#8217;d like to talk to you. Drop me line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lug-assign-01.pdf\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago a number of LUG (Leica User Group) members thought it worthwhile to take on an occasional &#8220;assignment.&#8221; This group of both amateur and professional photographers, from around the world, will bring an interesting international flavor to any topic. I&#8217;ve posted a list of contributors with links to their contributions here. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,19,34,17,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-hand-made","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}