{"id":7251,"date":"2015-01-12T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:58:49","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7251","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7253\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7253\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a-350x295.jpg\" alt=\"Self-Portrait\" width=\"350\" height=\"295\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7253\" data-wp-pid=\"7253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a-350x295.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a-800x675.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a-600x506.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/img_20150112_096950a.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self-Portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We live in the age of the &#x2018;selfie&#x2019; and I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s a good thing. Oh, I suppose it&#8217;s mostly harmless but it does have a strongly narcissistic feel. I&#8217;m not a big selfie taker but even in the days of Leonardo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh, self-portraits were a thing. So, once in a while, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I happened to see a portrait of this type and thought I&#8217;d give it a try. I&#8217;m not sure how well I like the results&#x2014;my face doesn&#8217;t lend itself to it as well as some I&#8217;ve seen&#x2014;but it&#8217;s interesting, anyway. Is it a front view or a profile? It&#8217;s both, and therein lies the interest.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in the age of the &#x2018;selfie&#x2019; and I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s a good thing. Oh, I suppose it&#8217;s mostly harmless but it does have a strongly narcissistic feel. I&#8217;m not a big selfie taker but even in the days of Leonardo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh, self-portraits were a thing. So, once in a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7255,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}