{"id":1731,"date":"2006-12-09T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/christmas-came-early\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T03:44:00","slug":"christmas-came-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/christmas-came-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas came early"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul surprised me with two very early Christmas gifts this year: an incredible lens and unbelievable flash for my camera. We’re talkin’ the real deal<\/span>. He sought advice from several amateur and professional photographers… and to all you advisors out there, I say Thank You!!!<\/p>\n

I may never use an automatic focus again. I also may never take this lens off of my camera. I got to try it out today when I brought Will to meet my Dad at the golf course<\/a> to hit balls. It was late afternoon and the light was incredibly challenging — full on horizon sun — it was really fun to play with the lens and flash to see how to deal with the light.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I can’t do much more for about another week — but it’s a definite that I’ll be annoying everyone this holiday season!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul surprised me with two very early Christmas gifts this year: an incredible lens and unbelievable flash for my camera. We’re talkin’ the real deal. He sought advice from several amateur and professional photographers… and to all you advisors out there, I say Thank You!!! I may never use an automatic focus again. I also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}