{"id":186,"date":"2021-12-06T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/?p=186"},"modified":"2022-01-24T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:48:07","slug":"10-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/10-hometown\/","title":{"rendered":"10. Hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MG_0021-507x338.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Downtown Los Altos, Late Afternoon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not have a particularly strong connection to my hometown, but I do very much enjoy being in Downtown Los Altos. It is small, generally quiet, and has most everything one could ask for during a day out relaxing. Its proximity to my home also means that I can go there basically whenever I please. It&#8217;s quite a common hangout spot after school for groups of students, and it has fostered quite a homely and almost nostalgic feeling within me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to capture an overhead view of one of the streets, to frame the composition as if the viewer is looking down at a diorama. I wanted the lighting to be low, which you accentuate the street lamps and sparse sunshine, to make the composition more interesting. I used the street as a natural leading line, directing the viewer&#8217;s gaze towards the man crossing the street, who could be seen as the &#8220;subject&#8221; of the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this photo captures that feeling of vague nostalgia and whimsy with which I associate the Downtown area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not have a particularly strong connection to my hometown, but I do very much enjoy being in Downtown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/10-hometown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10. Hometown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JakeC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}