{"id":44,"date":"2009-02-09T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/02\/09\/february_9_1\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:03:30","slug":"february_9_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/02\/09\/february_9_1\/","title":{"rendered":"February 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2009, meet 1999.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/DCL_2874-251.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/DCL_2874-thumb-512x340-251.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_2874.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"340\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>I took advantage of Circuit City&#8217;s going out of business to buy myself a new pocket-sized camera.&nbsp; It will see use primarily for this very Project 365 (in fact, it did for yesterday&#8217;s photo), but I will also use it for travel &amp; social events where the DSLR is a chore. <\/p>\n<div>The venerable old Coolpix 950 has served me well &#8212; it went with me to a lot of places, including Africa, and took thousands of shots with very few hiccups.&nbsp; Its 2 megapixels are more than sufficient for web work, and even 10 years old it takes a fine photograph.&nbsp; It was state of the art when new.&nbsp; But by modern standards it is huge, slow, and heavy.<\/p>\n<p>The new camera is much smaller, much snappier, has a very nice screen, and a quite useful 28-280mm (equivalent) zoom range.&nbsp; I hope it serves me as well as its predecessor.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009, meet 1999.I took advantage of Circuit City&#8217;s going out of business to buy myself a new pocket-sized camera.&nbsp; It will see use primarily for this very Project 365 (in fact, it did for yesterday&#8217;s photo), but I will also use it for travel &amp; social events where the DSLR is a chore. The venerable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/02\/09\/february_9_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February 9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}