{"id":276,"date":"2024-12-15T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/?p=276"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:39:10","slug":"holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/holiday-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/HolidayTraditions1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A zoomed in shot of a dumpling that is in the color of white to light brown.\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/HolidayTraditions1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/HolidayTraditions1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/HolidayTraditions1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/HolidayTraditions1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">50mm f\/4 1\/665 ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">Here comes my favorite part: Getting to have a nice Chinese dumpling meal with my entire family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">This Photo Blog of mine is about my favorite holiday: Chinese New Year. Every Chinese New Year, we get to eat a lot of food, and get red envelopes that wish us good luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">Since this Photo Blog is about balance in Holiday traditions, I decided to put a folded dumpling in the middle of my bamboo plate thing, and take a close up, symmetrical shot of the dumpling. Although Chinese New Year isn&#8217;t today, I still thought it was a good idea to take a photo of this, because we decided today was also a good day to eat some dumplings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">My original photo of this was slightly darker, so I decided to use the Screen blend mode in Adobe Photoshop to slightly lighten up the dumpling to place more emphasis on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f0deff\">And of course, the best part of every meal is about the argument on who gets the last one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes my favorite part: Getting to have a nice Chinese dumpling meal with my entire family. This Photo Blog of mine is about my favorite holiday: Chinese New Year. Every Chinese New Year, we get to eat a lot of food, and get red envelopes that wish us good luck. Since this Photo Blog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}