{"id":6389,"date":"2004-09-13T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/13\/picture-imperfect.html"},"modified":"2004-09-13T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T15:19:32","slug":"picture_imperfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/picture_imperfe.html","title":{"rendered":"Picture imperfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I reached college, I was amazed to find out that seniors got to decide what their yearbook photo would look like.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a heavy responsibility, and I stepped up to it by coming up with something really goofy that I only sort of wince at now, even were I to show it to friends.  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