{"id":309,"date":"2017-03-20T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-03-20T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:00:34","slug":"stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Stand Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"308\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/?attachment_id=308\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?fit=1214%2C1238\" data-orig-size=\"1214,1238\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Water Lilies\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?fit=294%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?fit=631%2C644\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?resize=294%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?resize=294%2C300 294w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?resize=1004%2C1024 1004w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunriftmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Water-Lilies.jpg?w=1214 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Kalispell, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It tells us something about our society that the word &#8220;standstill&#8221; is synonymous with &#8220;impasse.&#8221; Yet, to\u00a0 stand still can be one of our most productive moments. Making photographs enforces standing still, and I see it as reciprocal with nature&#8217;s own pace. The insightful photographer Minor White said, &#8220;Spirit stands still for the photographer it has chosen.&#8221; Often, in seeking a good photograph, I do feel chosen. At a certain moment, in a certain place, a gift is given. One that I now share with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Kalispell, Montana It tells us something about our society that the word &#8220;standstill&#8221; is synonymous with &#8220;impasse.&#8221; Yet, to\u00a0 stand still can be one of our most productive moments. Making photographs enforces standing still, and I see it as reciprocal with nature&#8217;s own pace. The insightful photographer Minor White said, &#8220;Spirit stands still for the photographer it has chosen.&#8221; Often,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/?p=309\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Eyar-4Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunriftmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}