{"id":704,"date":"2008-07-28T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2008-07-28T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T16:04:36","slug":"personal-musings-chicago-and-suburban-childrens-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/personal-musings-chicago-and-suburban-childrens-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Musings : Chicago and Suburban Children&#8217;s Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Strength: how do you define it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is it in your abiity to get up and walk around unassisted?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"H A N D S\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/hands.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is it purely in your personal faith, strength of beliefs, strength that the unknown is a place of peace &amp; comfort?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"strength &amp; faith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O8383.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is it strength in the bonds you feel for the young children who share your blood?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"grandchildren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O8420.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My father is the strongest man I know, even now as age is slowly weeping his physical strength away.  It is bittersweet to go visit him and my mom these days.  I cannot help but leave their home with the knowledge that the sands of time will be running out sooner vs. later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(204, 153, 255);\">&bull; &bull; &bull; &bull; &bull;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So my mind needs some cheer.&nbsp; Please bear with me as I try to bring some colour and happiness into my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Country girl vs. City girl&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"chicken girl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O8393.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"city girl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O8143.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks for stopping in&#8230;Namaste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strength: how do you define it? &nbsp; Is it in your abiity to get up and walk around unassisted? &nbsp; Is it purely in your personal faith, strength of beliefs, strength that the unknown is a place of peace &amp; comfort? &nbsp; Is it strength in the bonds you feel for the young children who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[661],"tags":[38,114,66],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-child-photographer","tag-chicago-photographer","tag-childrens-professional-photography","tag-family-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}