{"id":203,"date":"2023-12-10T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/?p=203"},"modified":"2024-05-31T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:44:53","slug":"11-balance-in-holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/11-balance-in-holiday-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"11 | Balance in Holiday Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240221_213447170-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240221_213447170-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240221_213447170-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240221_213447170-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240221_213447170.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Time to hit the slopes.<\/em><\/strong><br><em>1\/2000 sec; f\/4; ISO 62; 10.00 mm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year in February, over Presidents&#8217; Day weekend, my family and I go skiing at a small ski resort near Yosemite called Dodge Ridge. It&#8217;s a charming place&#8211; not nearly as busy or large as any of the Tahoe resorts. Since the slopes were relatively empty, I wanted to capture some beautiful photos to take home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, I also discovered that I can turn off the automatic adjustments that my phone camera makes, turning it into a manual camera. This was great, as it meant that I didn&#8217;t have to lug my Canon up the slope and risk it getting lost or damaged just for a manual shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a relatively pretty or clear day, but regardless I asked my brother to pose just before he went down the slope in front of us. The fact that the forest in the background fades into the fog adds a really neat &#8220;isolated&#8221; feeling to the photo, as if it&#8217;s just him and his skis in this snowy world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in February, over Presidents&#8217; Day weekend, my family and I go skiing at a small ski resort near Yosemite called Dodge Ridge. It&#8217;s a charming place&#8211; not nearly as busy or large as any of the Tahoe resorts. Since the slopes were relatively empty, I wanted to capture some beautiful photos to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StellaC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}