{"id":43255,"date":"2026-01-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43255"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:10:27","slug":"happy-2026-from-tracking-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/happy-2026-from-tracking-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY 2026 FROM TRACKING THE LIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a whopper of year thanks to 2025, I am looking forward to a happy new year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate, I&#8217;m posting this numerically appropriate Kodachrome slide that I exposed with my father&#8217;s Leica M3 rangefinder in Lowell, Massachusetts a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"43256\" 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