{"id":432,"date":"2020-09-23T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/?p=432"},"modified":"2020-09-23T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:30:20","slug":"portraiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/portraiture\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was my partner-in-crime&#8217;s birthday recently, and since it was her Big Lockdown Birthday I decided to try my hand at something different &#8211; a great big portrait. But what pose should I use? Is there some way I can do this without her finding out? 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100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"430\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/img_20200923_124925596\/\" class=\"wp-image-430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200923_124925596-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, 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But what pose should I use? Is there some way I can do this without her finding out? So I went trawling up in the loft and, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/portraiture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portraiture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}