{"id":229,"date":"2002-10-11T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2002-10-11T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2002-10-11T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2002-10-11T23:18:48","slug":"stories-of-a-wedding-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"stories of a wedding photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bill_nat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jack.orangephotography.com\/archives\/bill_nat.jpg?resize=450%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i did a wedding last week during the height of my bitterness. i really should not be doing weddings right now given my state of mind but i think i did a decent job nonetheless. i really like this picture because of the symbolism and non typical imagery. i&#8217;ve never been much of a committment guy, but it&#8217;s a very interesting ritual to document. conceptually, it pretty powerful but the ritual behind it seems corrupted in my book. the essence seems lost in the mechanical execution of a concept seemingly inherently a private affair. I am mean it&#8217;s great to have a party to celebrate love and all but feels like it needs revision. i am sure there are a lot more interesting rituals across the different cultures but it would seem the american version should be a synthesis of the supposed melting pot of america. whatever the reality, i do think i should feel honor to document the ritual, even though it feels like job sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i did a wedding last week during the height of my bitterness. i really should not be doing weddings right now given my state of mind but i think i did a decent job nonetheless. i really like this picture because of the symbolism and non typical imagery. i&#8217;ve never been much of a committment guy, but it&#8217;s a very interesting ritual to document. conceptually, it pretty powerful but the ritual behind it seems corrupted in my book. the essence seems lost in the mechanical execution of a concept seemingly inherently a private affair. I am mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}