{"id":6633,"date":"2010-03-25T18:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2012-11-05T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:52:10","slug":"2-portraits-of-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6633\/2-portraits-of-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Portraits of Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Spring. No fever. No cold. H.o.p. is miserable with allergies. <\/p>\n<p>I asked H.o.p.&#8217;s permission first before I took the 2 photos, expecting a, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sick.&#8221; Instead, he gave a small smile and nodded his head yes, then returned to napping. He&#8217;s been out all day. The television is on, tuned to Turner Classic Movies, and he hasn&#8217;t even cared what&#8217;s playing, even though it&#8217;s all old films. Once, when he had his eyes vaguely open and on the screen, I asked, &#8220;Would you like to watch something else?&#8221; He shook his head neither here nor there, held a handful of Kleenex to his face, blew his noise, then passed out again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/4463405426\/\" title=\"H.o.p. Napping (Portrait of Allergies), Pose 2 (iPhone) by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4010\/4463405426_b1dfe9f817_z.jpg?zz=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"H.o.p. Napping (Portrait of Allergies), Pose 2 (iPhone)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/4463405426\/lightbox\/\">Light box link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iPhone Hipstamatic capture run through the Lo-mob app. With this one I then took it into Photoshop to do some postprocessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/4462628233\/\" title=\"H.o.p. Napping (Portrait of Allergies), Pose 1 (iPhone) by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4069\/4462628233_5c46c1be5a_z.jpg?zz=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"H.o.p. Napping (Portrait of Allergies), Pose 1 (iPhone)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/4462628233\/lightbox\/\">Light box link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iPhone Hipstamatic capture run through the Lo-mob app. I then blurred the grain in a portion of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>H.o.p., the past several years, tends to only nap on the futon when he&#8217;s not feeling well.  A reason I was hoping for a photo is because, at 12, his profile still looks remarkably like it did at the age of 6, when I took the below photo.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2866760225\/\" title=\"H.o.p. sleeping, 2004 by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3139\/2866760225_97c2583dfa_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" alt=\"H.o.p. sleeping, 2004\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bighugelabs.com\/onblack.php?id=2866760225&#038;bg=white&#038;size=large\">View On White<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Spring. No fever. No cold. H.o.p. is miserable with allergies. I asked H.o.p.&#8217;s permission first before I took the 2 photos, expecting a, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sick.&#8221; Instead, he gave a small smile and nodded his head yes, then returned to napping. He&#8217;s been out all day. The television is on, tuned to Turner Classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[209,227,157,159,158],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-h-o-p-photo","tag-h-o-p-portraits","tag-hipstamatic","tag-iphone","tag-lo-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}