{"id":2443,"date":"2010-11-02T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2010-11-22T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:46:54","slug":"the-smoke-has-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-smoke-has-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smoke has Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2444\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-smoke-has-cleared\/the-smoking-man\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?fit=900%2C598&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chris Ward&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1286181437&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009 Chris Ward&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Smoking Man&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Smoking Man\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?fit=240%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2444 alignnone\" title=\"The Smoking Man\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?resize=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?resize=240%2C159&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smoke has cleared, so to speak. I have my images and a working computer back and functioning. I had taken a bit of a break to let my images from Nepal breathe a little, but then got a bit longer of a forced break while I got my digital darkroom back together again.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this was taken in Kathmandu, Boudha Stupa. \u00a0This man would walk around the Stupa several times a day, waving his incense around as he walked. He is facing the front right now, where on each revolution he would stop, and recite something.<\/p>\n<p>I took quite a few pictures of him. So much so, that he would recognize me, and laugh when he saw me as if to say, &#8220;Not again, why do you keep taking my picture silly man?&#8221; I have no idea what he was thinking, but he seemed good natured about it. This is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smoke has cleared, so to speak. I have my images and a working computer back and functioning. I had taken a bit of a break to let my images from Nepal breathe a little, but then got a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-smoke-has-cleared\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Smoking-Man.jpg?fit=900%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-Dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}