{"id":693,"date":"2022-03-28T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/?p=693"},"modified":"2022-03-29T03:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T03:49:14","slug":"current-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/current-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0114-90x60.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>A World on Fire<\/strong><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point in time, the world is in a really bad place. A historic war for Ukraine&#8217;s independence vs. Putin and Russia. Climate change all over the place. Ridiculous gas prices. Will Smith just punched Chris Rock live at The Oscars. And there&#8217;s so much more. When I first looked at the prompt for this week, there wasn&#8217;t anything positive I could think of photographing. Sure, things may be going well for me on the college side of things, but for the majority of the world, now is a really difficult time. To me, the image is somewhat powerful. A paper towel, something clean and uninfected, almost a symbol of how the world should be, is being charred and infected by fire, something invasive and harmful, how the world is currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point in time, the world is in a really bad place. A historic war for Ukraine&#8217;s independence vs. Putin and Russia. Climate change all over the place. Ridiculous gas prices. Will Smith just punched Chris Rock live at The Oscars. And there&#8217;s so much more. When I first looked at the prompt for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ReedK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}