{"id":2399,"date":"2008-07-15T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2008-07-15T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:48:10","slug":"bad-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/2399","title":{"rendered":"Bad Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day over at <a href=\"http:\/\/shouldersofgiantmidgets.blogspot.com\/\">Eric&#8217;s place<\/a>, while we were looking <a href=\"http:\/\/shouldersofgiantmidgets.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/flowers-bees-butterflies.html\">at some of Eric&#8217;s very nice pictures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maybe-she-does.blogspot.com\/\">Tania<\/a> was complaining that she takes lousy pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Eric and I both said that the secret is simply to take a <em>whole lot of pictures<\/em> and at some point the law of averages is going to be in your side.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Tania was convinced, so to make my point, please peruse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/sets\/72157606193105583\/\">every single picture I took today on my camera<\/a>. Notice that the vast majority of the completely and totally suck. Because I&#8217;m not a very good photographer. Is it frustrating? Yes. I really wanted a decent picture of my front garden. Didn&#8217;t get it, but I&#8217;ll try again tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day over at Eric&#8217;s place, while we were looking at some of Eric&#8217;s very nice pictures, Tania was complaining that she takes lousy pictures. Well, Eric and I both said that the secret is simply to take a whole lot of pictures and at some point the law of averages is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-CH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}