{"id":211,"date":"2006-05-13T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/05\/13\/double-graduation-good-vibrations\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:51:32","slug":"double-graduation-good-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/211","title":{"rendered":"Double Graduation, Good Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to spend last night working on my two &#8220;Photorama&#8221; collages for the Clan graduates, since we spent the evening with the Simpsons watching &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089755\/\">Out of Africa<\/a>.&#8221; It forced me to complete the gifts today, but everything worked out fine. After an eight-mile morning run, I was able to focus on my intuitive sprint to the family deadline&#8212;an ideal circumstance for creating this particular type of artwork&#8212;as well as getting to savor one of the only flawless motion pictures made in the past 25 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>25 years&#8230; that&#8217;s Brendan&#8217;s lifetime, and includes the lifetimes of all the Clan youngsters present at our celebration for Nicholas and Caitlan. And speaking of Brendan, I got to see him in action with his new camera, an impressive piece of equipment. As I shot with my vintage Nikkormat, I felt like a geezer driving around in a dusty old coupe. Ah well, at least I didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;No, sirree-Bob, they don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like this anymore.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to eat good Chinese food with Nic and Josh and Marty, too. Nic was having a great day, one that will last long in the memory bank. I wish my Godson well as he prepares to begin his studies in veterinary medicine. I really didn&#8217;t get to chat with Oxford-bound Caitlan, but, actually, I really didn&#8217;t get to talk to many of the others either, including my mom, but that didn&#8217;t stop me from simply absorbing the magnitude of the good family vibes, before it was all over much too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to spend last night working on my two &#8220;Photorama&#8221; collages for the Clan graduates, since we spent the evening with the Simpsons watching &#8220;Out of Africa.&#8221; It forced me to complete the gifts today, but everything worked out fine. After an eight-mile morning run, I was able to focus on my intuitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35,75,21,18,29,8,77,28,37,22,72,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}