{"id":981,"date":"2007-11-19T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2007-11-19T03:36:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:36:02","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-allison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Happy (belated) Birthday, Allison!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sfl13.jpg\"><br \/>\n(Yes, recycled picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=870\">Solve The Softie<\/a> blog post.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd1.jpg\"><br \/>\nI think you know where this is heading. Yet another blog post with lots of pictures of one birthday girl. Here she is at our ex-colleague&#8217;s wedding, waiting for her prince to come.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd2.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;anyway, despite how much you bully us and make us want to slap you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd3.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;you still throw nice parties, albeit all the way in Klang&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd4.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;With nice food and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd5.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;salted butter. Salted butter! Yum!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd8.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Plus, your house rocks because it has an OSIM chair.<\/b> The iMedic IV has one of my favorite programs and was the predecessor to the OSIM iDesire, which had my favorite neck-slapping sequence at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m one of those shameless people who sit in OSIM chairs without buying them. Call me a connoisseur of massage chairs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd7.jpg\"><br \/>\nI spy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd6.jpg\"><br \/>\nI have to say what a photographic pleasure it is to have such white surfaces resulting in high-key-like photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/allibd9.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd finally, for more geeking; I tap the AEL button on my Sony Alpha 700 to Spot Meter on the pillar behind Allison, before shooting. Shot in Aperture Priority at 17mm F4.5 ISO1600. The spot-metered pillar was 1\/40s.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can shoot with flash in Aperture Priority provided you lock exposure, to override the default flash sync speed and get nice ambient-light mix photos. Manual Exposure works too, but hey, if you understand what automation the camera gives you, you can work faster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yes, recycled picture from Solve The Softie blog post.) I think you know where this is heading. Yet another blog post with lots of pictures of one birthday girl. Here she is at our ex-colleague&#8217;s wedding, waiting for her prince to come. &#8230;anyway, despite how much you bully us and make us want to slap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}