{"id":2323,"date":"2007-12-24T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/24\/the-impulse-to-travel-is-one-of-the-hopeful-symptoms-of-life-agnes-repplier\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T05:25:00","slug":"the-impulse-to-travel-is-one-of-the-hopeful-symptoms-of-life-agnes-repplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/24\/the-impulse-to-travel-is-one-of-the-hopeful-symptoms-of-life-agnes-repplier\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.&#8221; Agnes Repplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike flies from SF to Australia later today, so I made a little video to send him off. It&#8217;s terribly amateur, it being filmed at <a href=\"http:\/\/bedtimetunes.trash-can.net\/\">four in the morning<\/a>, but I&#8217;m pleased with it anyway. It&#8217;s the first thing I&#8217;ve made with the tripod Ray just gave me for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rob-sheridan.com\/sketchblog\/2007\/12\/happy-holidays.html\">the holidays<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many of you were aware, but I didn&#8217;t have one before. Generally what I do is pile books into more or less stable stacks to whatever height I require, then pray that the cats won&#8217;t knock it over in the ten long seconds between pressing the timer button and hearing the shutter click. Occasionally I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to temporarily steal one off someone for a day or two, but that&#8217;s about it. My set-up is ghetto to the extreme. I&#8217;ve used flashlights and metal mixing bowls to light things, as well as hand mirrors taped to reading lamps. Having a tripod will be wonderful. Now let&#8217;s hope for some sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike flies from SF to Australia later today, so I made a little video to send him off. It&#8217;s terribly amateur, it being filmed at four in the morning, but I&#8217;m pleased with it anyway. It&#8217;s the first thing I&#8217;ve made with the tripod Ray just gave me for the holidays. I don&#8217;t know how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/12\/24\/the-impulse-to-travel-is-one-of-the-hopeful-symptoms-of-life-agnes-repplier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.&#8221; Agnes Repplier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,129,1404],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography","tag-ray","tag-that-mike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}