{"id":2349,"date":"2009-12-03T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2009-12-03T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:01:19","slug":"photo-essay-ian-fisher-american-soldier-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/photo-essay-ian-fisher-american-soldier-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Essay : Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have seen some very good photo essays over the years on the internet, but this one has to be amongst the best I have seen.<\/p>\n

This is how an American soldier is made.<\/em><\/p>\n

For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian\u2019s journey are posted below.<\/em><\/p>\n


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Ian Fisher : American Soldier<\/a><\/h2>\n

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I have seen some very good photo essays over the years on the internet, but this one has to be amongst the best I have seen. This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[506,822,914,1016],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-web-sites","tag-ian-fischer","tag-photo-essay","tag-recruit","tag-soldier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-BT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}