{"id":2637,"date":"2014-02-11T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2014-02-11T22:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:21:34","slug":"rubbish-vs-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Rubbish vs Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I travel I don&#8217;t take many pictures of the main tourist sights because so many people are taking pictures of the same scene and I<br \/>\nmight as well get those pics off the internet. I also don&#8217;t see the need to pose and plonk myself in front of every tourist attraction. Instead, I prefer taking snapshots of scenes that are more temporal in nature and pictures that reflect more of the everyday life of the locals. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-DSC_2483.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_2483.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-DSC_2483.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shot above was snapped in Angkor Wat just as I was making my way out after watching the sunrise. I captured this moment of a woman rummaging through a garbage bin, opening styrofoam boxes filld with food that tourists had thrown out because they couldn&#8217;t finish it, and feeding her pet dog with the trash. I was touched that even though she was poor, she bothered to go to this extent to find food for her dog. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-DSC_2504.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_2504.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-DSC_2504.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as I was walking to the bus, just in front of the moat that surrounds Angkor Wat, I came across two children with two blue sacks going through another garbage bin, looking for stuff they could salvage. Poverty is still rampant in Cambodia and it&#8217;s sad that people, especially children, have to do this. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly, what&#8217;s rubbish to someone could be treasure to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I travel I don&#8217;t take many pictures of the main tourist sights because so many people are taking pictures of the same scene and I might as well get those pics off the internet. I also don&#8217;t see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-cambodia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}