{"id":380,"date":"2026-01-12T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/?p=380"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:02:19","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1041-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1041-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1041-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1041-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1041-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>50mm, f1.8, ISO 125, 1\/15<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realize that the large majority of my day, week, and month, I know what&#8217;s coming next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know my schedule. I know my calendar. I know the events, and usually I know exactly how they will go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a junior in high school, in the later months of the school year. I can feel myself moving slower as I sense the unknown advancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m driving slow. On a foggy road. Late at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, I know the direction I&#8217;m moving in. I can see the map. I can hear the directions from Google Maps&#8217; female voice. I follow the guidelines, and I track the path of who have come before me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took this photo on the long ride to Joshua Tree National Park. It was an undeniably unnerving ride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I&#8217;m glad I wasn&#8217;t behind the wheel, it was beautiful and damp the next morning.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50mm, f1.8, ISO 125, 1\/15 I realize that the large majority of my day, week, and month, I know what&#8217;s coming next. I know my schedule. I know my calendar. I know the events, and usually I know exactly how they will go. I&#8217;m a junior in high school, in the later months of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","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\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MayaL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}