{"id":2247,"date":"2011-01-31T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2011-01-31T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:19:40","slug":"photo365-day-31-black-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-31-black-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 31 &#8211; Black Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I wore a black tie. It&#8217;s the first time it&#8217;s been out since my father&#8217;s funeral over six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s the smartest I&#8217;ve looked for about three years. I was at the  funeral of a lady who it turns out was very well liked. The church was  packed . In her husband&#8217;s speech I learnt a lot about the couple and the  lady&#8217;s charitable nature. She was a  pillar of the community. We seem  to have less of these these days and I&#8217;m as guilt as the next for not  even really knowing my next door neighbour, let alone the people in the  community.<\/p>\n<p>Although the person is not directly connected to my family, I shed a  tear at the stories being relayed about a couple who had been together  for 50 years and, through the guys career in the RAF, lived all over the  country and parts of Europe.  A very moving ceremony on a freezing cold  day.<\/p>\n<p>My photo365 shot today is a reminder of my black tie&#8230;hopefully it will  not surface for many years to come, but the day, and in particular that  speech, will be a lasting memory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/black_tie_450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/black_tie_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taken with window light using the Olympus EP2 hand held. To align the  shot I using the reflection of the LCD in the window. It took about 10  shots to get the tie straight and the camera central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I wore a black tie. It&#8217;s the first time it&#8217;s been out since my father&#8217;s funeral over six years ago. And it&#8217;s the smartest I&#8217;ve looked for about three years. I was at the funeral of a lady who it turns out was very well liked. The church was packed . In her husband&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[1397,1655,2084],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-black-tie","tag-funeral-speech","tag-sentimental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}