{"id":3892,"date":"2012-03-18T23:19:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T06:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2012-03-18T23:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T06:19:39","slug":"in-this-photo-it-is-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3892","title":{"rendered":"In this photo, it is beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/6822615162\/\" title=\"Over River Liffey by jdng, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7059\/6822615162_15557f58c8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Over River Liffey\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo is simple.  One of my favorite photos taken during my trip\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof Dublin, Ireland while crossing a bridge over River Liffey.  I had set my digital camera to have a slightly longer shutter speed to capture the colorful lights bouncing over the water.  It is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>However, what it doesn&#8217;t capture are the emotions before and after.  The nuances that I will always remember from that photo.<\/p>\n<p>I had just rejected an invitation to dinner, hoping that I would catch up with someone who could potentially connect me with UX in London.  My hopefulness and optimism came from a full day of conference networking\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere I felt that I made genuine connections.  For the first time, I really felt at ease.  However, right before I took that photo, I went up to a female that looked like the person and apparently, I was wrong.  Attempting to cover up my embarrassment, I laughed it saying that it was hard to figure out how people looked like based on their twitter photo.  So I walked along the river&#8230;alone&#8230;feeling a bit lonely as I saw groups of people walking together to dinner.  <\/p>\n<p>Then I crossed the bridge and saw this amazing sight.<\/p>\n<p>After the photo was taken, I went to the restaurant that the person indicated on Twitter.  Of course, plans change and not everyone had data on in Dublin.  I was the only Asian in the restaurant&#8230;and I stared at all the white females in the restaurant.  In disappointment and anxiety, I ate a small dinner alone\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof soup and bread\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsitting near the window next to a girl who was listening to the ipod bopping her head up and down.  Fortunately, I spotted the ice cream store across the way&#8230;and that was the only saving grace of that moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/6968739997\/\" title=\"Murphy's ice cream: Brown bread and Dinkle sea salt in cup. by jdng, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7210\/6968739997_828358b123.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Murphy's ice cream: Brown bread and Dinkle sea salt in cup.\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo is simple. One of my favorite photos taken during my trip\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof Dublin, Ireland while crossing a bridge over River Liffey. I had set my digital camera to have a slightly longer shutter speed to capture the colorful lights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}