{"id":11797,"date":"2013-05-31T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2013-05-31T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:07:44","slug":"therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2013\/05\/therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sumbitch.jpg\" alt=\"Sumbitch\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11798\" \/>I&#8217;m making this post because I have to face up to my problems if I want to defeat them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, my name is Al and my powers of observation suck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus] &#8220;Hi, Al.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I took this image a week ago at the local botanical garden, when the light was less than optimal &#8211; just noodling around. And while I&#8217;m pleased with the effect, it was literally only a few minutes ago that I found the frog in the frame. Missed it entirely while I was hovering immediately overhead, and didn&#8217;t spot it during the initial proofing while unloading the memory, either.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I was looking <em>right at<\/em> that little reddish blossom, making it the pivot point of the image. How did I miss wildlife staring at me not 10cm away from it?<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes<\/em>, it&#8217;s subtle. I just always thought I was better at spotting things than this. I <em>know<\/em> there are always frogs in the ponds at that location, and approach slowly to try not to spook them off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to be touchy for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making this post because I have to face up to my problems if I want to defeat them. &#8220;Hi, my name is Al and my powers of observation suck.&#8221; [Chorus] &#8220;Hi, Al.&#8221; I took this image a week ago at the local botanical garden, when the light was less than optimal &#8211; just noodling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1786,1785],"class_list":["post-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-inattentives-anonymous","tag-wounded-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}