{"id":1981,"date":"2008-12-14T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:59:04","slug":"new-orleans-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/new-orleans-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These fantastical, one could say phantasmagorical, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankrelle.com\/portfolio\/color\/noan\/galleryhome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">images of New Orleans as taken by Frank Relle<\/a> are post-Katrina documents of what&#8217;s been left behind, abandoned, and in some cases simply overgrown in Relle&#8217;s hometown.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1985\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/new-orleans-these-days\/lizardi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lizardi.jpg?fit=500%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lizardi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lizardi.jpg?fit=500%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lizardi.jpg?fit=500%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"choctaw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/choctaw.jpg?fit=415%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/choctaw.jpg?fit=415%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1983\" title=\"choctaw\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/choctaw.jpg?resize=415%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/choctaw.jpg?w=415&amp;ssl=1 415w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/choctaw.jpg?resize=125%2C181&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1982\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/new-orleans-these-days\/telemachus\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/telemachus.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/telemachus.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/telemachus.jpg?resize=125%2C83&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be visiting New Orleans sometime in early January and I&#8217;m psyched to see this city, as unfortunate as the situation is &#8211; although I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll quite have the lenses embedded into my eyes that Relle sees the world through. (I think there are things you can ingest to achieve these effects however)<\/p>\n<p>[compare with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/10\/06\/katrina-and-the-arts\/\">Robert Polidori&#8217;s <em>After the Flood<\/em> images<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These fantastical, one could say phantasmagorical, images of New Orleans as taken by Frank Relle are post-Katrina documents of what&#8217;s been left behind, abandoned, and in some cases simply overgrown in Relle&#8217;s hometown. I&#8217;ll be visiting New Orleans sometime in early January and I&#8217;m psyched to see this city, as unfortunate as the situation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[53],"tags":[6,78,1234],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-artist","tag-new-orleans","tag-photography"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/telemachus.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-vX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}