{"id":1444,"date":"2015-02-24T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2015-02-26T23:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T03:30:29","slug":"josh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"Josh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 365 &#8211; Day 54<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I was taking random photographs of Kathy and friends at a painting class, and Josh approached me.\u00a0 He asked if I shoot portraits.\u00a0 Having recently changed law firms, he wanted a picture that was much more &#8220;approachable&#8221; than his formal studio head shot.\u00a0 &#8220;Sounds like fun,&#8221; I replied.\u00a0\u00a0 We exchanged information and went on our way.<\/p>\n<p>Today after work we met and took a handful of photographs.\u00a0 There were two things I instantly admired after spending more time with Josh:\u00a0 1) He&#8217;s a very upbeat, considerate person.\u00a0 2) He recently left a big national firm to join a small local one.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 As a tax lawyer, he now has the opportunity to help individuals for whom tax technicalities or unfavorable tax law are bearing down on them.\u00a0 In other words, he can make a tangible difference in individual lives.\u00a0 He beamed from ear to ear telling me about this change.\u00a0 Personal satisfaction goes far beyond money, as we all know, but you have to love someone with the courage to leave the &#8220;big leagues&#8221; for something much more fulfilling.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1451\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150223_021b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1451\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150223_021b-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150223_021b-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150223_021b-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/150223_021b.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X-T1, 56mm f\/1.2, 1\/600 sec @ f\/2.0, ISO200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 365 &#8211; Day 54 A few weeks ago I was taking random photographs of Kathy and friends at a painting class, and Josh approached me.\u00a0 He asked if I shoot portraits.\u00a0 Having recently changed law firms, he wanted a picture that was much more &#8220;approachable&#8221; than his formal studio head shot.\u00a0 &#8220;Sounds like fun,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}