{"id":497,"date":"2017-07-21T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-07-21T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:11:10","slug":"feline-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/2017\/07\/21\/feline-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was trying to get a summer garden still life, involving Zinnias, a string of cheap lights from Five Below, and citronella candles. No picture turned out as I wanted; this was a first attempt and I need to rethink some things and try again. But that&#8217;s the joy of still life &#8211; you can leave it and come back to it, try different things, and you won&#8217;t miss the moment.<\/p>\n<p>This picture, on the other hand, was very much a moment that could be missed. As I was sitting on the<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0ground, trying to get the shot of the garden, my cat came up to me and demanded to be petted. After a bit of petting, he set his head on my arm and patiently watched as I took shot after shot. Using my free left hand (my right hand and arm having been claimed by my cat), I turned the camera around on the tripod and angled it to capture Rilian.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Rilian has always loved me. I am not sure why, but I am definitely his human. He is abundantly happy and content to lie with his head on my arm. How content? This was a 30-second exposure. Not a thirtieth of a second. Thirty whole seconds. One Mississippi. Two Mississippi. Three &#8212; well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>You try to get any animal to lie there awake for thirty seconds without moving and blurring the exposure. This is one contented cat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-496\" src=\"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0024-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0024-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0024-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0024-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was trying to get a summer garden still life, involving Zinnias, a string of cheap lights from Five Below, and citronella candles. No picture turned out as I wanted; this was a first attempt and I need to rethink some things and try again. But that&#8217;s the joy of still life &#8211; you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/2017\/07\/21\/feline-contentment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feline Contentment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coolskill.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}