{"id":181,"date":"2025-09-18T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:24:16","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/blog1k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\" style=\"width:512px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/blog1k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/blog1k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/blog1k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/blog1k.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>50mm, f3, ISO 800, 1\/165<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this photo in the beginning of the year, we were challenged to create a self-portrait of ourselves but without showing our face. I chose my hand as the main subject since physical creation and creativity through my hands is a key part of who I am. This is coupled with the series of bracelets and my watch that I wear on my wrist every day. The watch is beat-up, drawn on, and scraped-up; I feel representing the messy part of me. The beaded bracelets both show the connections I hold with the people around me, as they were gifted to me from my friends and family. The pink silicone bracelet is from a leadership program where I learned many things, one of which being the importance of attitude and optimism in every day life. It reads &#8216;complaint free&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50mm, f3, ISO 800, 1\/165 For this photo in the beginning of the year, we were challenged to create a self-portrait of ourselves but without showing our face. I chose my hand as the main subject since physical creation and creativity through my hands is a key part of who I am. This is coupled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}