{"id":2029,"date":"2011-03-24T05:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2011-03-24T05:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:48:16","slug":"photo-captions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"Photo Captions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent New York Times article called &#8220;Teaching to the Text Message&#8221; (the link is on the <a title=\"Articles I'm Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?page_id=1412\">Articles I&#8217;m Reading<\/a> page), the author discusses the importance of succinct writing.\u00a0 He comments, &#8220;the photo caption has never been more important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the start of this blog, I have tried to craft succinct, often funny, sometimes poignant or significant photo captions.\u00a0 Each photo on this blog has a title and a caption.\u00a0 The caption is obvious but the title isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Hover the cursor over this picture to see the title:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2046\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_8407.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2046\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2046\" title=\"Carpet of Pink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_8407-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_8407-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_8407-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_8407.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Any excuse for another blossom photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I mention this because I will be posting many spring blossom, flower, and plant pictures over the next days and weeks, yet still, with the titles and captions, keep to the blog&#8217;s theme.\u00a0 Also, writing interesting photo captions (something more than &#8220;A Tree With Pink Blossoms&#8221;) is another way to live literarily.\u00a0 Turn your photo album hobby into a literary activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent New York Times article called &#8220;Teaching to the Text Message&#8221; (the link is on the Articles I&#8217;m Reading page), the author discusses the importance of succinct writing.\u00a0 He comments, &#8220;the photo caption has never been more important.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,13],"tags":[27,225,222,223,224,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}