{"id":20813,"date":"2018-07-27T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20813"},"modified":"2018-10-31T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:31:49","slug":"favorite-photo-july-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20813","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, July 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20784\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/060727-Marcia-20D-6970-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20784\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/060727-Marcia-20D-6970-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grass splattered Marcia, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa. July 27, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a hard time picking my favorite photo for July 27. I finally decided on this image from &#8220;Spectacular&#8221;, an annual event for about 1,000 high school students from all around the world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20785\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/060727-Mud-Slide-20D-6982-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20785\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/060727-Mud-Slide-20D-6982-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcia, mud slide, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa, July 27, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was photographing a soccer match when I noticed a side activity going on. A water mister to keep the athletes cool had created enough mud for some soccer players to have an impromptu mud slide. I turned my camera just in time to capture Marcia hitting the mud, a fun photo in and of itself, and my second favorite photo for this date.<\/p>\n<p>She rinsed the mud off under the mister, but some wet grass remained and I grabbed the portrait at the top of this article. It is the expression on her face, and the curling of her tongue that really makes the image.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cofchrist.org\/spectacular\">Spectacular<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The mission of SPECTACULAR is to create a safe, Christ-centered community that encourages young women and men to discover God, their inherent worth, and cultivate and express their giftedness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a hard time picking my favorite photo for July 27. I finally decided on this image from &#8220;Spectacular&#8221;, an annual event for about 1,000 high school students from all around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21540,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20813\/revisions\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}