{"id":400,"date":"2003-02-22T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2003-02-22T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2003-02-22T17:24:09","slug":"excamera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"excamera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"opWin('\/img\/imgPopup.htm?i=\/img\/dscF717.jpg&amp;w=1000&amp;h=1000', 'imgPopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=5,top=0,width='+(screen.availWidth-20)+',height='+(screen.availHeight-30)+',scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">97kB&#8217;,CAPTION,&#8217;click=fullsize&#8217;);&#8221;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThis scares me.&nbsp; I wanted to be a professional photographer&#151;actually a photojournalist&#151;even before I wanted to be a firefighter.&nbsp; The first camera I fantasized about was a Pentax with a couple lenses.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t muster the courage, or the money, to pay what that cost, and eventually I began lusting after those beautiful Minolta SLRs with all their built-in electronic assistance.&nbsp; Such electronics were new then, in the late seventies, and nobody had yet heard the term &#8216;digital still camera&#8217;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\nA passion postponed goes into a dormancy of desire.&nbsp; And it waits.&nbsp; Some lusts are powerfully fulfilled, others miss their mark and flail against the wall as they slide to the floor.&nbsp; But some never are allowed to make an effort toward consummation, and for those desires, their postponement may be right.&nbsp; I can only hope that postponement will prove to have perfected the desire when finally comes the long-delayed launch of my ever patient urge to make a picture.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>\nWish me luck.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>97kB&#8217;,CAPTION,&#8217;click=fullsize&#8217;);&#8221;&gt; This scares me.&nbsp; I wanted to be a professional photographer&#151;actually a photojournalist&#151;even before I wanted to be a firefighter.&nbsp; The first camera I fantasized about was a Pentax with a couple lenses.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t muster the courage, or the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[789],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}