{"id":384,"date":"2010-08-04T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-08-04T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:23:20","slug":"urbex-photo-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Urbex Photo Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Who Are You?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57319697@N00\/4488000241\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4488000241_41ea2d6b33.jpg\" alt=\"Who Are You?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The above photo won the Best of Category for Animals in the <a href=\"http:\/\/uc.uww.edu\/fiskum\/exhibits.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fiskum Art Gallery<\/a> &#8211; Summer Scenes Photo Contest at UW-Whitewater today. When I explain what urbex is to some, they just can&#8217;t see how it could be more than just exploring decaying abandoned buildings. Animals are not a subject I normally photograph. Sometimes, though, these abandoned buildings become home to the surrounding fauna. When I show people this example they look like they just opened a copy of National Geographic. Then urbex seems to make a whole lot more sense. There isn&#8217;t only beauty in decay, but also beauty in the living breathing things that now call the building home.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken in the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=289\" target=\"_self\">Armour Meat Packing Plant<\/a> north of East St. Louis, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above photo won the Best of Category for Animals in the Fiskum Art Gallery &#8211; Summer Scenes Photo Contest at UW-Whitewater today. When I explain what urbex is to some, they just can&#8217;t see how it could be more than just exploring decaying abandoned buildings. Animals are not a subject I normally photograph. Sometimes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22,24],"tags":[70,119,321,336,578,472,490],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}