{"id":64,"date":"2015-11-19T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:33:55","slug":"charlies-magic-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/charlies-magic-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie\u2019s Magic Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Charlie \u2014 excuse me, my brother Charlie \u2014 often sends me pictures that he takes with a certain camera.  Either Charlie has a strange talent or there is something  unusual about this camera.  Maybe both.  Yesterday he sent this picture of a dead salmon.  I wrote and said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s face it, this is a magic camera.  Dead salmon aren&#8217;t really that pretty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replied that the salmon really did look like the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly note, dear reader, that gold light seems to be emanating from the salmon&#8217;s wounds.   I thought, &#8220;The camera is adding some kind of posterization or over-saturation effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Charlie wrote, &#8220;The gold was very bright and truly gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie&#8217;s poems are like this too; gold light emanates from them, and other colors, and intangible things.  Sometimes I think the knowledge that was in the second tree in the Garden of Eden, the one that Adam and Eve never got hold of, has somehow wound up in Charlie&#8217;s poems.  I guess this sounds like excessive praise but it&#8217;s my opinion so I&#8217;m writing it down.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realization.org\/p\/charlie-hopkins\/prayer-body.html\">This poem<\/a> is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>For more of Charlie\u2019s pictures and poems, see <a href=\"https:\/\/charliehopkinspoetry.wordpress.com\/\">his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Salutations to the salmon, who swam him or herself to death in order to make more salmon. I thank you for letting us use your picture.   You were very beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freddieyam.com\/gen2\/img\/charlies-dead-salmon.jpg?w=648\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: .8em; color: #999999;\">Photo by Charlie Hopkins and his magic camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Charlie \u2014 excuse me, my brother Charlie \u2014 often sends me pictures that he takes with a certain camera. Either Charlie has a strange talent or there is something unusual about this camera. Maybe both. Yesterday he sent this picture of a dead salmon. I wrote and said: &#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s face it, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YVpx-12","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}