{"id":19182,"date":"2020-08-21T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=19182"},"modified":"2022-01-28T07:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:47:58","slug":"19182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=19182","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/randywells-and-his-1972-911Spf2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/randywells-and-his-1972-911Spf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/randywells-and-his-1972-911Spf2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/randywells-and-his-1972-911Spf2-330x217.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/randywells-and-his-1972-911Spf2-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THANKS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my story. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No Photoshop for this post, just a fog machine at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>From Mr. Nelson, my grade school teacher in Cordova, Alaska in the &#8217;60s to Dr. Nelson my physics professor at UPS college in Tacoma, Washington in the &#8217;70s. <\/p>\n<p>Of course there were more, like my philosophy and writing professors, and of course my parents who did the best they could. <\/p>\n<p>My good friends, David King, Arthur Meyerson, Robin Rickabaugh, and James Opie followed and were major influences during the &#8217;80s. Ernst Haas and Sam Abell further shaped my photography career. My wife, Andrea, has been my constant guiding star ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I feel very lucky to have experienced the years 1960-2000 in the USA. Since then, the years have not proven to be so rewarding, but I have found my way through.   <\/p>\n<p>A sincere thank you to all, and my best wishes for the youth who are left to carry on.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THANKS Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my story.<\/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":[4,3,7,10,5,1,8,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182"}],"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=19182"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24681,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions\/24681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}