{"id":245,"date":"2011-09-01T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-02-17T01:11:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:11:54","slug":"give-me-a-dragon-anytime-or-how-i-confronted-my-worst-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Give me a dragon anytime &#8211; or how I confronted my worst fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To cut a long story short, I paid a photographer to take my picture.<br \/>\nMe.<br \/>\nWho literally runs when someone picks up a camera.<br \/>\nWho volunteers to take pictures at parties so she&#8217;s not confronted with her own image on screen.<br \/>\nMe, the camera-phobic, had portraits done.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s no turning back now!<\/p>\n<p><DIV STYLE=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra77.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra77-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zahra Portrait 77\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra71-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zahra Portrait 71\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra85-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zahra Portrait 85\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra87.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Zahra87-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zahra Portrait 87\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/DIV><\/p>\n<p>Yes, these pictures are photoshopped.<br \/>\nIn real life I&#8217;m a 19-year-old size zero fashion model.<br \/>\nNot.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer BTW, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidvanoost.be\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Van Oost<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/JavaScript\">var TFN='';var TFA='';var TFI='0';var TFL='0';var tf_RetServer=\"rt.trafficfacts.com\";var tf_SiteId=\"3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\";var tf_ScrServer=document.location.protocol+\"\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/tf.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca;c=s;v=5\";document.write(unescape('%3Cscript type=\"text\/JavaScript\" src=\"'+tf_ScrServer+'\">%3C\/script>'));<\/script><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/ns.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cut a long story short, I paid a photographer to take my picture. Me. Who literally runs when someone picks up a camera. Who volunteers to take pictures at parties so she&#8217;s not confronted with her own image on screen. Me, the camera-phobic, had portraits done. Well, there&#8217;s no turning back now! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}