{"id":1730,"date":"2014-01-01T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:12:12","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-attachment-id=\"1838\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/00035-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1230393573&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On Oxford Street, new and old buildings stand next to each other.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035-1024x576.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035.jpg\" alt=\"Glass fa\u00c3\u00a7ade building on Oxford Street, London, United Kingdom\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00035-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Glass fa\u00e7ade on Oxford Street, London<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish you all a very Happy New Year. I hope that 2013 was a good year and that 2014 will be an even better one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture reminds me of the festive atmosphere in London on the last day of 2008 as we wandered around, waiting for the NYE celebrations to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish you all a very Happy New Year. I hope that 2013 was a good year and that 2014 will be an even better one. This picture reminds me of the festive atmosphere in London on the last day of 2008 as we wandered around, waiting for the NYE celebrations to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-rU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4101,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/fooling-around-with-artificial-lighting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1730,"position":0},"title":"Fooling around with artificial lighting","author":"Eddy Young","date":"18 May 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a fresh roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 to test the film in daylight and under artificial light. 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