{"id":573888411,"date":"2015-08-10T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888411"},"modified":"2015-08-13T00:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T05:39:52","slug":"im-photographing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/im-photographing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m photographing things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to work. Back to syllabus writing and lining up assignments and the like. It is a time intensive process, especially so when you&#8217;re preparing a new class. I&#8217;m taking over an older course and revamping the thing, so it will be a work in progress until the final. (Next year, if I&#8217;m asked to teach it again, it will be even better. Until then, it is an almost entire-rebuild.)<\/p>\n<p>So that takes time and daydreaming and emailing and so on and so forth. It isn&#8217;t particularly interesting for most people, so there&#8217;s no need to get into it here. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, here are a few things I&#8217;ve photographed in my homemade light diffuser box. I&#8217;m having far too much fun with the thing. I wonder if I&#8217;ll run out of interesting things to shoot before the novelty wears out. <\/p>\n<p>Good thing I&#8217;ve got a lot of interesting things, I guess. <\/p>\n<p>Here are two of them now. This was my grandfather&#8217;s Bible. It is the first one he ever used as a preacher. A friend gave it to him on his 16th birthday. She wrote inside that she hoped he would use it in such a way that she could say &#8220;I knew him when.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He wrote a verse from Isaiah beneath her note.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug15\/aug06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And while that was my grandfather&#8217;s Bible, this was his father-in-law&#8217;s pocket watch: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug15\/aug07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I remember him, one of the five greats- I knew. I can&#8217;t find out really anything about this particular watch. It is like a very mass-produced piece, and not even particularly old. But it looks sharp, doesn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s not even the diffuser box. It looks sharp in your hand, too. If I wasn&#8217;t afraid of losing it I&#8217;d buy a chain and start wearing the thing. <\/p>\n<p>And it would be amusing watching the guy teaching a social media class going into his pocket to pulling that out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to work. Back to syllabus writing and lining up assignments and the like. It is a time intensive process, especially so when you&#8217;re preparing a new class. I&#8217;m taking over an older course and revamping the thing, so it will be a work in progress until the final. (Next year, if I&#8217;m asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888414,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888411\/revisions\/573888414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}