{"id":740,"date":"2022-04-19T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:20:03","slug":"hobbies-adventures-november-2018-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/hobbies-adventures-november-2018-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbies &#038; Adventures November 2018 Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by\u00a0<strong>Doug Billings<\/strong><br><br>&#8220;I enjoy photographing roadside oddities. This was captured at the Great River Road as I traveled with my wife Rachele. As one explores this great country, the creativity of people never ceases to amaze me.<br><br>&#8220;Beginning in the days of Henry Ford&#8217;s Model-Ts, travelers began to whiz by faster and faster, overlooking the many vendors and shops trying to peddle products. The solution was to build large, over-the-top statues and other advertising gimmicks to lure people to stop. These oddities make the drive across America much more enjoyable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nov2018_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nov2018_2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nov2018_2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<strong>Doug Billings<\/strong><br><br>&#8220;This photograph was taken minutes after a dark, gloomy rainy day in the spring of 2017. I photograph nature, and this shot was taken in Onalaska, Wisconsin. I was alone when I took it. To gaze out on a colorful sunset or a magnificent mountain range has humbled me with a sense of awe in the world we live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Doug Billings &#8220;I enjoy photographing roadside oddities. This was captured at the Great River Road as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,18,17],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-33","tag-employees","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empire-screenprinting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}