{"id":6800,"date":"2023-11-14T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/733970871335649280-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:53:21","slug":"733970871335649280-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/733970871335649280-2\/","title":{"rendered":"733970871335649280"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"468\" data-orig-width=\"655\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/61ad9c07bb1417f3332d8c8e5ede92f9c0b8dff7.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"468\" data-orig-width=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s75x75_c1\/fbd25a739463bf7345d04eedfabd0e43ca99888e.jpg 75w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s100x200\/7d63a6da8be755ad7fc42dfd42611b377a1cd894.jpg 100w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s250x400\/0956fea4954b243aa040a1654b9f2d0e5c468b7c.jpg 250w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s400x600\/a729a1df0c08ab60de3751c30a99eb16322c5bd4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s500x750\/318adf238b73c09354767afe04278f53264fb3be.jpg 500w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s540x810\/f624f69ecd66ebbb147efe36b5947954e696cc90.jpg 540w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s640x960\/61ad9c07bb1417f3332d8c8e5ede92f9c0b8dff7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/a182f10783c430a3482392bd33f5b081\/8d07dc8d7ff64b87-3f\/s1280x1920\/ca3f1c1510ea467e8595d5e85b2fec2952770924.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons of pictures to keep up the morale and to send back to friends and family. I had everything backed up to a hard drive and I lost (crashed) that hard drive, which was very hurtful because I had pictures of family members that are deceased. I realized the only thing I could do was document life in the present.\u201d \u2014 Michael McCoy<\/p>\n<p>Photography by Michael McCoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[1594,582,3424,655,793,9186,1347,8986,3425,1295,3426,7035,9283,171,92,2772,9185,7159,9181,6897,581,1775,9284,9120],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-american","tag-art","tag-art-quotes","tag-artist","tag-black-and-white","tag-black-and-white-photography","tag-contemporary-art","tag-dnd-studio-art-of-the-day","tag-draw","tag-drawing","tag-figurative-art","tag-figure","tag-michael-mccoy","tag-paint","tag-painting","tag-photo","tag-photo-everyday","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-photo-shoot","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-portrait-photographer","tag-portrait-photography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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