{"id":755,"date":"2010-04-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=755"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:24:58","slug":"coke-color-and-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/coke-color-and-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke, Color and Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coca-Cola, or &#8220;nectar of the gods&#8221; as I call it, is the one thing that you can usually find, no matter where you are in the world. Zambuanga, Mindanao, the Philippines was no exception. I liked the combination of texture, color and shape in this scene, which I noticed on the side of the shop were I had just purchased a cold Coke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-783\" title=\"coke\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coke-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m always on the lookout for great color combinations, and this mixture of blue with a dash of red caught my eye. The image was shot from the back window of the vehicle I was traveling in while stopped at a stoplight in Koronadal, Mindanao, the Philippines. Waiting for the boy to notice me as he peered out of the garage, I squeezed off a frame at the very moment our eyes met.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffh_philippines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-786\" title=\"ffh_philippines\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffh_philippines-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cops are usually the guys you want to be friendly with, especially in dicey areas. While in Cotabato, Mindanao, the Philippines, I got to know the policeman who was in charge of the checkpoint on a bridge on the outskirts of town. On the day that I left, I asked to make his photo, he happily complied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theasiafoundationphilippine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-797\" title=\"theasiafoundationphilippine\" src=\"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theasiafoundationphilippine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coca-Cola, or &#8220;nectar of the gods&#8221; as I call it, is the one thing that you can usually find, no matter where you are in the world. Zambuanga, Mindanao, the Philippines was no exception. I liked the combination of texture, color and shape in this scene, which I noticed on the side of the shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[9,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}