{"id":10089,"date":"2014-11-29T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2014-11-29T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T14:42:32","slug":"photo-of-the-day-yoma-spaghetti-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/photo-of-the-day-yoma-spaghetti-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: YOMA spaghetti fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">L<\/span>ast week I <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/win-tickets-to-the-yoma-spaghetti-dinner-silent-auction-fundraiser-with-mayor-jim-watson\/\">blogged about <\/a>the Youth of Manotick spaghetti dinner fundraiser, so I thought it would be fun to share some of the images from the event last night.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I was nervous going in. I&#8217;d agreed to take some photos, but had some concerns. For one, I&#8217;m much more comfortable taking portraits than event photos. For another, Legion halls are not known for their camera-friendly lighting. I needn&#8217;t have worried &#8211; the event was a wonderful success. The kids were terrific, the dinner was yummy, the turnout was so great that extra tables were set up on the fly and I think some people got turned away at the door. The challenging lighting was mostly compensated for with a little bit of bounced flash, everyone seemed to have a great time and lots of great photo opportunities were captured.  See?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/15905278675\" title=\"YOMA dinner by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7530\/15905278675_961b3cbff7_b.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"526\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"YOMA dinner\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was super proud of the kids last night, and charmed by how special guest Mayor Jim Watson did not act like a special guest at all as he interacted with all the young people in the room. I&#8217;m glad to live in a community that has a heart like this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I blogged about the Youth of Manotick spaghetti dinner fundraiser, so I thought it would be fun to share some of the images from the event last night. I have to admit, I was nervous going in. I&#8217;d agreed to take some photos, but had some concerns. For one, I&#8217;m much more comfortable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/photo-of-the-day-yoma-spaghetti-fundraiser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: YOMA spaghetti fundraiser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10093,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}