{"id":11700,"date":"2017-07-24T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:27:31","slug":"11700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=11700","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/andreawells-7934ps1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/andreawells-7934ps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"andreawells-7934ps\" width=\"330\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/andreawells-7934ps1.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/andreawells-7934ps1-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/andreawells-7934ps1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONALISM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s so hard to achieve for so many. Calling yourself a &#8220;professional&#8221; today is becoming less and less meaningful. There seem to be only a handful of people in my line of work who truly qualify. Jeff Zwart and a few others have earned the respect this title deserves through lots of effort, pride in their work, and making the right decisions along the way. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I&#8217;m able to continue to do the stories I believe in without compromise, while still staying in business. Thanks to all of you for your support &#8211; and you know who you are.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Jeff Zwart and Randy Wells by Andrea Wells)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROFESSIONALISM I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s so hard to achieve for so many. Calling yourself a &#8220;professional&#8221; today is becoming less and less meaningful. There seem to be only a handful of people in my line of work who truly qualify. Jeff Zwart and a few others have earned the respect this title deserves through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=11700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11722,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions\/11722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}