{"id":1036,"date":"2007-09-23T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2007-09-23T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:48:04","slug":"open-for-business-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/09\/23\/open-for-business-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Site5!  I would complain about the RAID array failure at my host, which led to a three day outage here at avablog, but I&#8217;m piggybacking on my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/cindyandgreg.com\/\">Greg&#8217;s<\/a> account, so&#8230;.  You didn&#8217;t miss much, anyway.  We&#8217;ve been up in Decorah since Friday afternoon for the annual apple cider weekend.  This event revolves around the collection and pressing of a couple bushels of apples into apple cider.  Ava had a great time, and I got plenty of pictures out at the orchard and around the apple press:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1123\/1425700839_e48b3dea09.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1123\/1425700839_e48b3dea09_m.jpg\" alt=\"apples\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of pictures, Leah and her family got me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000I1ZWRC\/ref=reg_hu-wl_list-recs\/104-4692526-5689539\">spiff birthday present<\/a> this year.  There was no lens, but I&#8217;ve already ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00007E7JU\/104-4692526-5689539\">a simple one<\/a> from Amazon.  Now all I have to do is find a nice macro lens with a little range to it.  If anyone has any recommendations&#8230;.  Kevin&#8217;s let me borrow his nice Sigma 50mm EX macro this weekend, and it takes some nice shots.  I&#8217;m hoping I can rent some lenses I&#8217;m interested in buying before I purchase them.  And perhaps impose on the generosity of friends who&#8217;re already shooting with Canon lenses (or Sigma, or Tamron, or whatever).  My first shots with the new rig are up &#8212; of course &#8211; on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the downtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Site5! I would complain about the RAID array failure at my host, which led to a three day outage here at avablog, but I&#8217;m piggybacking on my friend Greg&#8217;s account, so&#8230;. You didn&#8217;t miss much, anyway. We&#8217;ve been up in Decorah since Friday afternoon for the annual apple cider weekend. This event revolves [&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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-gI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}