{"id":1235,"date":"2019-03-15T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2019\/03\/15\/190315-instagram\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:12:41","slug":"190315-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2019\/03\/15\/190315-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing on Instagram&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 12px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/ig\/art.jpg\" alt=\"Art installation - San Antonio Museum of Art\" \/><br \/>\nArt installation &#8211; San Antonio Museum of Art<br \/>\n(heavily Photoshopped)<\/p>\n<p>I try to post a new image to Instagram every morning. I&#8217;m not 100% successful because I&#8217;m lazy, but I don&#8217;t miss <i>too<\/i> many days, because I enjoy the discipline of creating and sharing those pictures, when I&#8217;m not feeling lazy. I also like Instagram because it&#8217;s the one social medium that is [mostly] immune to inflammatory rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: Contrary to what I wrote above, I&#8217;m no longer posting regularly to IG. Sorry about that; I&#8217;m sorta social media-ed out, IYKWIM.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"><i>Note: If you already follow me in Instagram, you can skip the rest of this post. Unless you&#8217;re just here for the mesmerizing mellifluence of my prose&#8230;in which case you can also skip this post.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Everything I post is based on my own photography, and mostly nature-related, although a lot of it will be unrecognizable because part of the fun is enhancing\/modifying\/mangling\/ruining a picture via Photoshop. So, don&#8217;t believe everything you see&#8230;but everything you see has at least a smidgen of truth in it. What you won&#8217;t see is a lot of family or vacation photos, or selfies, or pictures of my food. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with those things, and I enjoy seeing them on other accounts (for the most part), but I stumble to the bleat of a different bagpiper.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an IG account and want to follow me, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/esieg\/\">here<\/a>. But if you&#8217;re not on Instagram, here are some of the images I&#8217;ve posted. Click on any thumbnail to see a full-sized version, or use the popup controls to view a slide show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art installation &#8211; San Antonio Museum of Art (heavily Photoshopped) I try to post a new image to Instagram every morning. I&#8217;m not 100% successful because I&#8217;m lazy, but I don&#8217;t miss too many days, because I enjoy the discipline of creating and sharing those pictures, when I&#8217;m not feeling lazy. I also like Instagram&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2019\/03\/15\/190315-instagram\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing on Instagram&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[3,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-photography","category-social-media","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}