{"id":2712,"date":"2011-05-05T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2014-11-15T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T13:20:06","slug":"gaiety-sandwich-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/05\/gaiety-sandwich-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaiety Sandwich Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gaiety<\/a>Another one of my art school photos from Philadelphia in 1982 although I didn’t really intend this shot to be art. We would get these assignments to shoot some subject matter or other, and rather than waste shots, I would try to use up the 36 exposure roll of Pan-X. This was one of those frame wasters which is a lot more interesting than the images I purposefully shot.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure of the exact location, but it was probably East of Broad Street right in what is considered Center City.<\/p>\n

I don’t know who the guy is either. He’s just somebody who walked into my frame as I was trying to adjust the focus and exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another one of my art school photos from Philadelphia in 1982 although I didn’t really intend this shot to be art. We would get these assignments to shoot some subject matter or other, and rather than waste shots, I would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,104,3340],"tags":[148,130,345,346,3669],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-philadelphia","category-the-photo-elective","tag-148","tag-art-school","tag-center-city","tag-gaiety-sandwich-shop","tag-philadelphia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-HK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23457,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/gaiety-sandwich-shop-an-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":2712,"position":0},"title":"Gaiety Sandwich Shop — an Update","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"People constantly scour the Internet seeking the newest of the new. 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