{"id":194,"date":"2025-12-14T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:32:22","slug":"balance-in-holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/balance-in-holiday-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance in Holiday Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A close up photo of a plastic gift back with a large, shiny, red bow on it. \" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5636.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">50mm, f2.0, ISO 800, 1\/60<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the word &#8220;balance&#8221; comes to mind, I think of something equal on both sides, perfectly aligned, and stable. I wanted to explore the idea of balance being being consistent and similar, nothing starkly different from everything around it. I chose to photograph one of my family&#8217;s favorite holiday traditions, which is gifting gift baskets of treats to our neighbors. But I had to capture this subject in a unique sense to showcase balance. I decided to focus on one gift basket while featuring others in the background. This photo is balanced in the sense that it allows the viewer to feel a sense of harmony with the similar colors, textures, and shapes of the subjects in the photo. In some sense, I feel that the holiday season does bring some balance to the otherwise stressful hustle and bustle of my everyday life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the word &#8220;balance&#8221; comes to mind, I think of something equal on both sides, perfectly aligned, and stable. I wanted to explore the idea of balance being being consistent <a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/balance-in-holiday-traditions\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AnoushkaD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}