{"id":530,"date":"2014-10-27T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/?p=530"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:57:06","slug":"a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo is worth a thousand words (but this will be less!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/inmyhead.com\\\/wordpress\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/27\\\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-530 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/img_3719\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3719-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"531\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/img_3719\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3719.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"427,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chorus Photography&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1411216916&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2014 - www.chorusphotography.com - If you \\&quot;like\\&quot; this image, please consider \\&quot;liking\\&quot; us on Facebook.  Thank You!&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3719\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3719-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3719.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/img_3720\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3720-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"532\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/img_3720\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3720.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chorus Photography&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1411225728&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2014 - www.chorusphotography.com - If you \\&quot;like\\&quot; this image, please consider \\&quot;liking\\&quot; us on Facebook.  Thank You!&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3720\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3720-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3720.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>These pictures were taken at a friend&#8217;s Bat Mitzvah. I posted the black and white one on the personal blog I keep about my kids. When I first saw these photos, I considered them to be decent ones of me (for once) and liked that they were candids. I didn&#8217;t give them much thought beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until a speaking deaf friend of mine was catching up on the kids&#8217; blog and texted me, &#8220;LOVED, LOVED that pic of you reading Doran&#8217;s lips. I hope someone captures a similar pic of me doing the same with one of my kids. It&#8217;s so poignant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I went back and looked at the photos and realized she was right. In the color photo, I was standing up (in wedge heels, no less), so I had to bend down to lipread\/understand Doran better. In the other photo, we were at the bar getting Doran a drink, and I had to angle myself for optimal lipreading. These are things I do every day, actions I&#8217;ve undertaken my whole life, so much so that they&#8217;re natural. Now these photos take on so much more meaning!<\/p>\n<p>When I told my friend that I hadn&#8217;t thought about the photos this way, and that it may have registered but subconsciously, her response was incredulous. &#8220;What??? How could you not think of it that way??? It was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it. Wow, I think you may have forgotten that you read lips! (I know, it&#8217;s become so innate to us that we don&#8217;t think about it anymore. But it&#8217;s so empowering and poignant to see it in a picture &#8211; especially between mom and child.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thank her for reminding me that sometimes it&#8217;s important to take a look outside myself to remember the little (and not so little) things I have to do daily to compensate for my disability. It&#8217;s not always easy, and should be recognized. What better way to do so than in this perfect representation of my life, captured so beautifully?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures were taken at a friend&#8217;s Bat Mitzvah. I posted the black and white one on the personal blog I keep about my kids. When I first saw these photos, I considered them to be decent ones of me (for once) and liked that they were candids. I didn&#8217;t give them much thought beyond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/a-photo-is-worth-a-thousand-words-but-this-will-be-less\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A photo is worth a thousand words (but this will be less!)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4roOt-8y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}