{"id":943,"date":"2008-07-21T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2015-05-31T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:42:32","slug":"busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3081\/2691243854_f2b21032c1.jpg\" alt=\"Pollination\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/>I don&#8217;t make a lot of money from the ads you see here on Nerd&#8217;s Eye View, enough to keep me in web hosting and the occasional side purchase &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/nerdseyeview.114531504\">Nerd&#8217;s Eye View t-shirts<\/a>, postcards or photo books, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>I did buy a fancy camera last year before we went to Hawaii &#8211; I was in the rare and enviable situation of being able to justify it 100% legitimately as a business expense. I think it paid off, we love our Hawaii photos and the comps for the book are nothing if not pretty. But we could not afford to buy the camera <em>and<\/em> updated lenses so I&#8217;ve been shooting with older, pre-digital lenses on my new digital camera.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saving my pennies for the last six months or so and have finally earned enough from ad revenue to spring for a serious lens with image stabilization and the bits that make it talk effectively to the giant brain inside the Nikon. Exciting. It arrives next week. Bees, watch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make a lot of money from the ads you see here on Nerd&#8217;s Eye View, enough to keep me in web hosting and the occasional side purchase &#8211; Nerd&#8217;s Eye View t-shirts, postcards or photo books, that sort of thing. I did buy a fancy camera last year before we went to Hawaii &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Busy\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/busy\/#more-943\" aria-label=\"Read more about Busy\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}