{"id":573891494,"date":"2019-08-26T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891494"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:05:00","slug":"the-new-photo-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/the-new-photo-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The new photo game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week, The Yankee and I invented a new game. We take photos of nonsensical things for arcane reasons. The game is made up and the points don\u2019t matter, but we had a good time with it. She won this first round, but only barely. Here are a few of my efforts. Remember, friends, I am a professional.<\/p>\n<p>Cream and cream:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug19\/aug27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was accused of staging this photograph, but that was before we had rules about staging our shots. (I totally staged that shot.)<\/p>\n<p>I think this one speaks for itself:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug19\/aug28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the utilitarian nihilism of the postal system and boxes in general, to the practicality of asphalt paint:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug19\/aug29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And then of course there&#8217;s Max, the standee. I thought this was a great submission in the game at the time, but this game can change on you in a hurry. That&#8217;s what Max taught me:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug19\/aug30.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be a shame if I lost this game on the Max shot? This game needs rules. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned today. Give me rules and a camera and I can put out a good effort. Without that, though, these pictures are just going to get interesting eventually. I am a professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week, The Yankee and I invented a new game. We take photos of nonsensical things for arcane reasons. The game is made up and the points don\u2019t matter, but we had a good time with it. She won this first round, but only barely. Here are a few of my efforts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891496,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891494\/revisions\/573891496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}