{"id":28319,"date":"2019-12-18T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28319"},"modified":"2019-12-18T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:35:16","slug":"conway-scenic-december-17-2019-a-spin-and-a-surprise-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conway-scenic-december-17-2019-a-spin-and-a-surprise-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway Scenic December 17, 2019\u2014A Spin and a Surprise Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28320\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conway-scenic-december-17-2019-a-spin-and-a-surprise-twist\/bm_4268_on_north_conway_turntable_p1170804\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520\" data-orig-size=\"3776,2520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?fit=709%2C473\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28320\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?w=3776 3776w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?resize=709%2C473 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?resize=1022%2C682 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world of splashy announcements, bold publicity stunts and loud pronouncements, occasionally subtlety, allusion and understatement still have a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I\u2019m always curious to learn who\u2019s paying attention and who just looks at the pictures. (Sometimes the long posts with allusive titles offer the most important messages).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28321\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conway-scenic-december-17-2019-a-spin-and-a-surprise-twist\/bm_4268_on_north_conway_turntable_p1170809\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170809.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520\" data-orig-size=\"3776,2520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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(Bigger bolder pronouncements later).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#1300a3;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Tracking the Light will continue to post daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world of splashy announcements, bold publicity stunts and loud pronouncements, occasionally subtlety, allusion and understatement still have a place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060],"tags":[6061,6063,6062,7536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BM_4268_on_North_Conway_turntable_P1170804.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7mL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28323,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions\/28323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}