{"id":2319,"date":"2010-04-28T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:15:06","slug":"get-a-glimpse-of-the-american-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Get a Glimpse of the American Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2321 alignleft\" title=\"AmericanFarmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/AmericanFarmer.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"AmericanFarmer\" width=\"200\" height=\"251\" \/>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve made 300 of the best friends I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; said Paul Mobley, author of the new photographic book, &#8220;<em>American Farmer<\/em>&#8221; when describing how photographing farmers around America has changed his life. Paul never set out to put together a collection of photos taken of farmers around the world &#8211; he happened upon the opportunity when he went up to his cabin to get away from his career as a portrait photographer.<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes&#8230;he walks into a cafe one morning for breakfast and sees four farmers gathered around a table having breakfast. One of the men hadn&#8217;t shaved for a week and suddenly, he felt compelled to take their photo. Three plus years and 37 states later, the result is a stunning collection of photography and stories that tell the story of the American Farmer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2322\" title=\"Paul_Mobley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/Paul_Mobley.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Paul_Mobley\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>I had the opportunity to speak with Paul after the closing luncheon during the 2010 NAMA conference. I asked him how this book has changed his life. &#8220;I feel like its changed me on so many levels&#8230;.I walk the earth with so much kindness grace and humility and I got it all from you guys,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, what he has enjoyed the most are the people outside of agriculture who have come to embrace the industry since reading his book.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Paul about any future projects and he said that he has been approached by several people who would like to turn &#8220;<em>American Farmer<\/em>&#8221; into a documentary and he is also exploring the opportunity for a traveling exhibition. You can order a signed copy of his book at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmobleystudio.com\">www.paulmobleystudio.com<\/a> and you can listen to Paul&#8217;s interview here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/nama\/nama-10-mobley.mp3\">download (mp3 file)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zimmcomm\/sets\/72157623774667723\/\">2010 National Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve made 300 of the best friends I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; said Paul Mobley, author of the new photographic book, &#8220;American Farmer&#8221; when describing how photographing farmers around America has changed his life. Paul never set out to put together a collection of photos taken of farmers around the world &#8211; he happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}