{"id":725,"date":"2008-03-24T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-03-25T03:38:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:38:54","slug":"if-you-want-something-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/03\/24\/if-you-want-something-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want Something Done Right &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that at long last there&#8217;s a picture of me on my blog. I always prefer blogs where the author is not anonymous and I think having your picture there on every page is about as un-anonymous as you can get. The reason my picture wasn&#8217;t added sooner is that I simply didn&#8217;t have a picture of myself that I didn&#8217;t hate. Yesterday I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and keep taking pictures of myself till I got one I didn&#8217;t hate. I took a fair few goes (about 40 shots as it happens), some serious cropping, and the removal of all colour, but in the end I finally got a shot I don&#8217;t hate. In fact, I actually kinda like it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/selfportrait-full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/selfportrait.jpg\" alt=\"A Self-Portrait\" border=\"0\" width=\"464\" height=\"464\" style=\"border:0px solid black;\" \/><br \/>Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that at long last there&#8217;s a picture of me on my blog. I always prefer blogs where the author is not anonymous and I think having your picture there on every page is about as un-anonymous as you can get. The reason my picture wasn&#8217;t added sooner is that I simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[22],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}