{"id":728,"date":"2008-05-22T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2008-05-22T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:02:26","slug":"mandatory-listening-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/mandatory-listening-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"mandatory listening for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s episode of This American Life<\/a> and when I finished it I had two urges: (1) to bury some money in the backyard and (2) to force everyone I know to listen to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242\" target=\"_blank\">The podcast<\/a> is all about the economic downturn and why the mortgage crisis became a problem for everyone and not just sucky for the people going through foreclosures.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard when listening to the podcast not to think about the last time banks made risky investments.   Of course, I don&#8217;t see any banks closing or any Hoovervilles popping up around town, so I&#8217;m going to trust NPR with their relatively optimistic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>(To listen to the podcast, as I&#8217;m pretty much ordering you to do, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> and click on the &#8220;full episode&#8221; orange link on the left about halfway down the page.<\/p>\n<p>And as promised, another photo from Bernadette and Haydn&#8217;s engagement portrait shoot in Manitou Springs, Colorado:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729 aligncenter\" title=\"manitou springs engagement portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bh10.jpg\" alt=\"colorado wedding and engagement photography\" width=\"612\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished listening to last week&#8217;s episode of This American Life and when I finished it I had two urges: (1) to bury some money in the backyard and (2) to force everyone I know to listen to it. The podcast is all about the economic downturn and why the mortgage crisis became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[176,172],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagement-sessions","category-news","tag-colorado-springs-photographers","tag-manitou-springs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}