{"id":4784,"date":"2008-03-15T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/wedding-photography-contest-is-almost-over\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:20:43","slug":"wedding-photography-contest-is-almost-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wedding-photography-contest-is-almost-over\/","title":{"rendered":"wedding photography contest is almost over!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are less than five hours left in the voting phase of our Colorado wedding photography give-away.  I am really excited to find out who the winner is!<\/p>\n<p>I got to meet with finalists Sarah and Dan today, and all you comment-leavers are right&#8211;they do rock.  :)  (a little rock humor for you)  That has been the best (and hardest) part of the contest&#8211;meeting and learning about so many great people! However Nic assures me that it would be a terrible business practice to give away six weddings.  :P<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing he&#8217;s here to remind me of the business aspect of things, because I have a tendency to describe my financial goals in such ways as saying &#8220;I&#8217;d like to make enough money this year to justify only wearing Seven for All Mankind jeans&#8221; or &#8220;Those stupid self-employment taxes make it stupid for me to post a profit.  Let&#8217;s spend it all on lenses and lighting this year.&#8221; or &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a retirement fund&#8211;I&#8217;ll die early if we can just get an iPhone.&#8221;  These sorts of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are less than five hours left in the voting phase of our Colorado wedding photography give-away. I am really excited to find out who the winner is! I got to meet with finalists Sarah and Dan today, and all you comment-leavers are right&#8211;they do rock. :) (a little rock humor for you) That has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,51,28,23,29],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colorado-springs","tag-contest","tag-denver","tag-photography","tag-wedding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}