{"id":6047,"date":"2013-10-10T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2013-10-10T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:00:29","slug":"when-i-was-a-pup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6047","title":{"rendered":"When I was a pup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved taking pictures. I couldn&#8217;t very bloody well afford it, but I would save my nickles and dimes and buy rolls of expired Plus-X pan at the local camera shop, wait till I had five exposed rolls, and scrape up 95 cents for a Kodak Tri Chem pack, which would, if you stretched it, just do five rolls. <\/p>\n<p>The trick, as I remembered it, was to take lots of pictures hoping you&#8217;d get some good ones, and within the limits of my budget, I did. <\/p>\n<p>But my budget was pretty limited. <\/p>\n<p>I have come far from those days with my Argus C3 and the burnt fingers from the magnesium laden flashbulbs, but I have not had a &#8220;Decent&#8221; digital camera with which I could make decent pictures, just a lot of el stinko point and shooters. But I have been saving my nickles and dimes again, and tonight I sold a couple items on Ebay that let me pull the trigger on a spanking new Nikon D3100 from Adorama. I also sprung for the $85 three year diamond waranty, which seems to be designed for me, as it&#8217;s proof against the more stupid things a duffer can do- things involving moisture, sand, impact,etc. <\/p>\n<p>I look forward to having the freedom to take absolute wads of pictures. Maybe once in a while I can get a nice one.  Anyway, it should be here in a couple days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved taking pictures. I couldn&#8217;t very bloody well afford it, but I would save my nickles and dimes and buy rolls of expired Plus-X pan at the local camera shop, wait till I had five exposed rolls, and scrape up 95 cents for a Kodak Tri Chem pack, which would, if you stretched it, [&hellip;]<\/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-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}