{"id":40,"date":"2007-09-12T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-08-30T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:28:37","slug":"formal-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/formal-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikesmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-51\" title=\"mikesmall\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikesmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I ran for District Governor, I just used a nice snapshot that Bruce Burrow had taken a few months prior. It looks like probably half of the DGs in the DG brochure used a professional photograph. But for ID, it&#8217;s quite clear that I need a professional photograph. Fortunately, someone at work is able to recommend a very good studio photographer, and they are able to get me in the next day. I just had a haircut a week ago, and I dress up for it with my Toastmasters membership tie (15+ new members in one year). It looks pretty good! That&#8217;s the photo on the first page on my web site, the introdution page. Plus, now I have a Christmas gift for my mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I ran for District Governor, I just used a nice snapshot that Bruce Burrow had taken a few months prior. It looks like probably half of the DGs in the DG brochure used a professional photograph. But for ID, it&#8217;s quite clear that I need a professional photograph. Fortunately, someone at work is able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-id-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}