{"id":631,"date":"2006-11-30T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=631"},"modified":"2006-11-30T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T17:25:39","slug":"blast-from-the-past-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/11\/30\/blast-from-the-past-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one’s ever asked me why I take so many pictures of Ava (and of everything else). I guess it’s pretty self-explanatory why I’d want to keep a fairly complete photographic record of my daughter. But if someone ever does <\/em>ask me, I’ll tell them I’m trying to get a shot as good as this:<\/p>\n

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\"Cousins\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Here I am on my grandfather’s arm, my cousin Chris taking up the other spot. The date tag over on the right edge of the Polaroid indicates November 1971, so I can only conclude we were down in Burlingon for Thanksgiving; it was too early for Christmas.<\/p>\n

And yes, we got our pictures taken a lot<\/em> in Burlington. Grandmother was quite a shutterbug, and she kept up pretty well on the latest camera technology. As we got older, her constant clicking away and pose requests became an affectionate family joke. I wish she would’ve stayed around long enough to have enjoyed digital photography. For that matter, I wish my grandfather had stayed around long enough for all us kids to get to know him better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one’s ever asked me why I take so many pictures of Ava (and of everything else). I guess it’s pretty self-explanatory why I’d want to keep a fairly complete photographic record of my daughter. But I someone ever does ask me, I’ll tell them I’m trying to get a shot as good as this:<\/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-631","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-ab","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}