{"id":746,"date":"2007-05-28T22:57:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T06:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2007-05-28T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T06:57:31","slug":"the-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"the hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i try not to look at too many other photographer&#8217;s work but sometimes i feel like i need the inspiration and i let myself browse. inevitably, at the end of the browsing session, i feel pretty shitty because i feel like my photography is pretty at a hobby level. although i&#8217;ve spent plenty of time behind the camera, compared with the amount of time i spend doing everything else, it&#8217;s&nbsp; probably less than 1% of my time. the point being is i haven&#8217;t done shit in photography skills development and it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to happen anytime soon. sure, i can rely on my &#8216;photojournalistic&#8217; eye but it&#8217;s not cutting it for me these days. fast forward a week later and i am grateful that i am doing my own thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i try not to look at too many other photographer&#8217;s work but sometimes i feel like i need the inspiration and i let myself browse. inevitably, at the end of the browsing session, i feel pretty shitty because i feel like my photography is pretty at a hobby level. although i&#8217;ve spent plenty of time behind the camera, compared with the amount of time i spend doing everything else, it&#8217;s&nbsp; probably less than 1% of my time. the point being is i haven&#8217;t done shit in photography skills development and it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to [&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-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}