{"id":513,"date":"2026-05-28T19:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/?p=513"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:48:44","slug":"self-portrait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/self-portrait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4665-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4665-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4665-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4665-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4665.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Shutter Speed 1\/100, F\/2.8, ISO 200, 24mm Lens)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Football has become my love. This game has taught me so much, and has truly become part of what makes me, me. I think everyone should play a team sport as demanding as football because of all the lessons it teaches you. It teaches you how to think outside the box, react quickly to pressure, tune everything else out, and go full steam ahead. That&#8217;s exactly what you need in a life that is going to throw curveballs at you at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Shutter Speed 1\/100, F\/2.8, ISO 200, 24mm Lens) Football has become my love. This game has taught me so much, and has truly become part of what makes me, me. I think everyone should play a team sport as demanding as football because of all the lessons it teaches you. It teaches you how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~StephenM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}