{"id":16826,"date":"2019-05-17T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=16826"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:16:39","slug":"head-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/head-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Head shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8x10-Angela-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8x10-Angela-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8x10-Angela-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8x10-Angela-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends, I had to have my portrait taken for display. I cut my hair two times and practiced my smile while snapping selfies over the course of weeks. In the end, the photographer just used the first shot because I began to progressively twitch, blink, and smirk with each successive snap.  When he said to smile presidentially, my face collapsed like a hot air balloon without a flame. He let me see my photos and magically altered the one you see. I am not this bright and shiny, ever. Brian Twede is the photographer and he is my friend, a desirable trait for a someone who has editorial power over your image. It has been 24 years since I had a portrait taken of just myself. Brian told me not to wait another quarter of a century to sit for my next portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might, because this was just exhausting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I had to have my portrait taken for display. I cut my hair two times and practiced my smile while snapping selfies over the course of weeks. In the end, the photographer just used the first shot because I began to progressively twitch, blink, and smirk with each successive snap. When he said to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/head-shot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Head shot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16828,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/16828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}