{"id":476,"date":"2017-10-03T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-10-03T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:02:58","slug":"start-of-my-day-sunrise-october-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/start-of-my-day-sunrise-october-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of my day, Sunrise October 3, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2YAqhLSJpw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had to give up some blood for a blood test this morning at 8:30 so I was up early to head out for that appointment. I didn&#8217;t get to see the actual sunrise but I did get to see the start of an early morning around here.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to think about how peaceful my existence is when there is so much crazy going on around me.\u00a0Run. Fight. Hide.<\/p>\n<p>The work I do has been interesting and stimulating lately. Things change a lot, the opportunity to learn new things is nearly constant and the level of work load has been very manageable unlike years past. So it&#8217;s all good. I&#8217;m enjoying this time of life.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I hate to admit it I did some <a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/images\/2017_tower2_base_damage\/#\">damage to my tower 2<\/a> this past weekend by putting excessive load on the lifting structure at the base of the tower.<\/p>\n<p>It started out by trying to unwind a steel cable that was binding on the worm drive drum. After extending the tower on the ground I needed to lift it like 4&#8243; to clear the high point of the ground. I thought I could lift it extended that much but instead of lifting it did this damage. Ugh. I&#8217;ll need a new tower base and lifting arms. I don&#8217;t trust metal that has been bent like this. Once it&#8217;s bent it&#8217;s no longer good. Unfortunately, I think I ruined it.<\/p>\n<p>The tower up\/down mechanisms are still fine. But the lifting mechanisms need some work. The power of a worm drive winch is nothing short of amazing. Every time I move that tower it&#8217;s a bit frightening at some level. There is a lot of steel and technology on that thing. That it moves is simultaneously both wonderful and unnerving.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you do something fun today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started like this: I had to give up some blood for a blood test this morning at 8:30 so I was up early to head out for that appointment. I didn&#8217;t get to see the actual sunrise but I did get to see the start of an early morning around here. Sometimes it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/start-of-my-day-sunrise-october-3-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Start of my day, Sunrise October 3, 2017.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography","category-public","category-time-lapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}