{"id":446,"date":"2013-02-11T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:59:00","slug":"first-gold-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"First Gold of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SJUB93OT158\/URLL7mTbS6I\/AAAAAAAABrw\/dxEkJ7l3PDI\/s1600\/Christina-Lauder-Beauty-&amp;-Boudoir-England-January-2013.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"474\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SJUB93OT158\/URLL7mTbS6I\/AAAAAAAABrw\/dxEkJ7l3PDI\/s640\/Christina-Lauder-Beauty-&amp;-Boudoir-England-January-2013.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I was really pleased with the results of this image.&nbsp; It was my subject, Joel, who suggested trying such an effect and together we worked until just the right effect was achieved.&nbsp; So I am thrilled that the judges of the Societies&#8217; monthly competition agree.&nbsp; This means that this image will go forward for consideration in the annual competition and I am in with a chance at winning an annual award at the convention next January.&nbsp; It always makes sitting at the awards dinner much more exciting when there&#8217;s a possibility of winning an award.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I plan to try much harder this year at producing award winning images.&nbsp; Its not enough anymore to be just a nominee.&nbsp; This year I want to be a winner.&nbsp; There, I said it.&nbsp; Now lets see if I can make it come true.&nbsp; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was really pleased with the results of this image.&nbsp; It was my subject, Joel, who suggested trying such an effect and together we worked until just the right effect was achieved.&nbsp; So I am thrilled that the judges&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}