{"id":7558,"date":"2024-07-11T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:14:34","slug":"passages-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7558","title":{"rendered":"PASSAGES TO INDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I have finally committed images to print in my new photobook, &#8220;Passages to India&#8221; which reveals photos of my three trips to India. My first was in December of 1970 and my last was on assignment with Canada&#8217;s Department of External Affairs in 1993. Much has happened in India since then but my photographic record gives an honest account of the India of that period. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The title is of course a hat tip to the great English novelist E. M. Forster&#8217;s famous work, &#8220;A Passage to India.&#8221; Thanks to the miracle of artificial intelligence image processing software, I have brought old roll and slide film images up to a modern standard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/india.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I welcome you to peruse this book at your leisure by clicking below.  (Be sure to expand when prompted for the best viewing experience.<\/strong>) <strong>Enjoy!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blurb.ca\/bookstore\/invited\/10315720\/588c1a1ac5e64fb4d127c5647b5107253ca3e322\">https:\/\/www.blurb.ca\/bookstore\/invited\/10315720\/588c1a1ac5e64fb4d127c5647b5107253ca3e322<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally committed images to print in my new photobook, &#8220;Passages to India&#8221; which reveals photos of my three trips to India. My first was in December of 1970 and my last was on assignment with Canada&#8217;s Department of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-images","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}