{"id":488,"date":"2010-11-30T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=488"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:53:58","slug":"365-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2010\/11\/30\/365-check-in\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Check-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34096744@N00\/5199873277\/\" title=\"11\/365: Mary's Garden by JDMaleski, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4084\/5199873277_9d4f4b5597.jpg?resize=500%2C387\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\" alt=\"11\/365: Mary's Garden\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little over two weeks into it and I have to say it&#8217;s been easier than I expected. Maybe because I&#8217;m being a lot less demanding of myself this time and maybe because I&#8217;ve really gotten use to have a camera with me at most times. It&#8217;s easier to &#8220;see&#8221; pictures through out the day. For example, I was making a quick last-minute run to the store for a birthday gift after dropping my son off at the party (yeah, THAT last minute) when I drove by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34096744@N00\/5212523131\/in\/set-72157625260360409\/\">Reston community garden with the afternoon sun lighting it up<\/a>. A ha &#8212; my picture for the day! And immediately pulled over and grabbed it. Yeah, I felt pretty ridiculous standing on my van to get the height I wanted, but whatever! At this point anything for the shot, right?<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary&#8217;s Garden<\/em> is my favorite of the month for several reasons. I love the distortion of the old glass and I love the &#8220;hidden&#8221; feel of the garden &#8211; as if it&#8217;s a secret retreat tucked away from sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over two weeks into it and I have to say it&#8217;s been easier than I expected. Maybe because I&#8217;m being a lot less demanding of myself this time and maybe because I&#8217;ve really gotten use to have a camera with me at most times. It&#8217;s easier to &#8220;see&#8221; pictures through out the day. [&hellip;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-everyday","category-photography","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-7S","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}