{"id":3477,"date":"2016-07-12T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2016-07-13T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:15:05","slug":"wilbur-gaskill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur Gaskill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corkeys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3478\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corkeys.jpg\" alt=\"Corkey's\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corkeys.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corkeys-400x257.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the very first time I visited the island, Ocracoke has always struck a cord with me. On an excursion to the village in 1978, I was wandering the back roads near Corkey\u2019s Grocery Store. There was an old timer sitting on the porch wittling wooden birds with a pocket knife. I was enthralled with this scene as I approached. A budding photographer, I was a bit timid shooting people, especially if I didn\u2019t know them. I wanted a picture and asked for his permission first. He said okay and I took three or four shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gaskill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3479\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gaskill.jpg\" alt=\"Gaskill\" width=\"404\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gaskill.jpg 404w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gaskill-269x400.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t occur to me at the time that this encounter would never happen again. I have always cherished this photo of him. Wilbur Gaskill passed away two years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the very first time I visited the island, Ocracoke has always struck a cord with me. On an excursion to the village in 1978, I was wandering the back roads near Corkey\u2019s Grocery Store. There was an old timer sitting on the porch wittling wooden birds with a pocket knife. I was enthralled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buildings","category-outer-banks","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}