{"id":1166,"date":"2020-01-01T15:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2020-01-01T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:26:41","slug":"aunt-toots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/aunt-toots\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Toots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"790\" data-attachment-id=\"1167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/aunt-toots\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"524,790\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411.jpg 524w, https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1971_aunt_toots_close_up_at_1411-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 1971 I was given my first 35mm by my parents for my graduation from high school.  Soon after, the family gathered in our back yard and I used the occasion to capture portraits of my relatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my Aunt Toots &#8211; my mom&#8217;s best friend in the family &#8211; was a mischievous wit and her own woman.  She was a great influence for me as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m including these early portraits in my art photography because, as inexperienced as I was in photography, I did have a knack, and in this case managed to present the essence of each family member, almost as if they were on video, rather than frozen in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1971 I was given my first 35mm by my parents for my graduation from high school. Soon after, the family gathered in our back yard and I used the occasion to capture portraits of my relatives. This is my Aunt Toots &#8211; my mom&#8217;s best friend in the family &#8211; was a mischievous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color-photography","category-family-album"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-iO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}