{"id":637,"date":"2018-01-21T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-01-20T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:58:00","slug":"photography-depression-a-night-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/21\/photography-depression-a-night-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: Depression &#8212; A Night In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely have I picked up my camera in the last two years. To be honest, I&#8217;ve probably done more &#8216;shooting&#8217; at the range than I have behind the lens in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>The face of depression is something I deal with constantly and it&#8217;s often hard to describe to people what it means to live with it day in and day out.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos.smugmug.com\/Abstract\/The-Long-Road\/i-4fd9hZb\/0\/11b00761\/M\/IMG_8703-2-M.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos.smugmug.com\/Abstract\/The-Long-Road\/i-4fd9hZb\/0\/11b00761\/M\/IMG_8703-2-M.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Night In<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I happened upon my reading light and my usual &#8216;before bed&#8217; get up and thought the angle and framing told the right narrative. A small area of light, surrounded by mostly darkness. A sense of something comfortable yet also an intangible discomfort. Those are some of the themes and senses I get from my depression. Everyone&#8217;s depression is different and I hope perhaps someone viewing this may find common ground. Don&#8217;t give up, don&#8217;t let depression win. Express yourself even if it&#8217;s just something simple as a photo before bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely have I picked up my camera in the last two years. To be honest, I&#8217;ve probably done more &#8216;shooting&#8217; at the range than I have behind the lens in the last four years. The face of depression is something I deal with constantly and it&#8217;s often hard to describe to people what it means &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/21\/photography-depression-a-night-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photography: Depression &#8212; A Night In&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[41,4,29],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression","tag-art","tag-depression","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-ah","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}