{"id":21,"date":"2025-12-12T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/?p=21"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:24:40","slug":"dear-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Dear Diary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle\">Why Did I Start This Blog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">I have reached a certain stage in my life (technically well before my mid-life crisis) when the need for a hobby became too obvious to ignore. Since I still have a mortgage to pay,  getting myself a Porsche was not an option&#8230;so I got myself a relatively basic mirrorless camera so that I still have some pocket cash to travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will try to describe my thinking process and what I did and keep doing to become a slightly better amateur photographer. Continuous improvement and stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not here to answer (or even spark any discussion of) the questions of Galactic importance&#8230; iPhone PRO VS a Mirrorless (or a DSLR) camera, Canon VS Nikon, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And please, take everything you read here with a grain, or even a crystal of salt. It&#8217;s my experience, your mileage may (and will) vary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~KS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Did I Start This Blog? I have reached a certain stage in my life (technically well before my mid-life crisis) when the need for a hobby became too obvious to ignore. Since I still have a mortgage to pay, getting myself a Porsche was not an option&#8230;so I got myself a relatively basic mirrorless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[3,6,5,4],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-photography","category-general","tag-blog","tag-explanation","tag-motivation","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks-official.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}