{"id":12816,"date":"2011-07-01T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2012-11-10T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T22:08:12","slug":"meet-louis-mendes-a-street-photographer-from-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=12816","title":{"rendered":"Meet Louis Mendes, a street photographer from Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110701-122452.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20110701-122452.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110701-122452.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy HarlemCondoLife<br \/>\nOn my way to work today I had the pleasure of meeting (actually bumping into) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louismendes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Mendes<\/a>, a street photographer from Harlem best known for his speed graphic camera. Our paths crossed right on the northwest corner of 116th and Frederick Douglass Blvd. I quickly asked &#8220;are you taking pictures of people right in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2011\/06\/30\/sign-says-harlem-tavern-officially-opening-july-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Tavern<\/a> today?&#8221; He said &#8220;no, I am waiting for someone.&#8221; I said &#8220;you should take photos tonight, there will be tons of people here.&#8221; He said &#8220;we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Louis took a photo of me and then I asked &#8220;can I take a picture of you?&#8221; He agreed and said &#8220;I might be here later tonight.&#8221; I said &#8220;I hope so &#8217;cause it&#8217;s going to be happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HarlemCondoLife On my way to work today I had the pleasure of meeting (actually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155,1662],"tags":[18302580,124718158,124718187,90477813,29605824,660,2078120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18432,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions\/18432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}