{"id":192,"date":"2013-03-15T21:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2013-03-15T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T05:59:29","slug":"no-reason-other-than-to-sit-for-a-portrait-with-my-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"No reason other than to sit for a portrait with my cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"No reason other than to sit for a portrait with my cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC_3753-7-II-with-can-LR-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted an old time portrait. The kind of portrait for which great people and families would sit in front of library fireplaces and settees in great rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes those photos feel sad, stale and lifeless- clownish \u2013 people sitting very still, no smiles, no movement, with a pressured expression of non-expression.<\/p>\n<p>Only the cat shows movement, liveliness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted an old time portrait. The kind of portrait for which great people and families would sit in front of library fireplaces and settees in great rooms. Sometimes those photos feel sad, stale and lifeless- clownish \u2013 people sitting very still, no smiles, no movement, with a pressured expression of non-expression. Only the cat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/?p=192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No reason other than to sit for a portrait with my cat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melanieannportraits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}