{"id":8996,"date":"2005-05-23T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2005-05-23T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T17:23:14","slug":"the-magic-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/23\/the-magic-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic of photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>My father-in-law called today morning and said that he will most probably come to visit us next week.  I was really surprised to hear that.  Last time he was here about one month prior to Olga&#8217;s and mine wedding.  That is to say that he was here around June of 2002.  Lots of things happened since than, including our wedding, Olga&#8217;s hospital adventure with gall bladder, and the birth of our son to name a few.  Neither of this events caused him to come.<\/p>\n<p>And than this sudden phone call today morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about it and couldn&#8217;t figure it out.  Why?  Why now?  And than Olga helped me out.   Her father got some pictures of Maxim that we passed with Olga&#8217;s mother.  He gets the pictures and calls us to let us know that he is coming within the next couple of days.  It seems like a very strong correlation to me. Even if it&#8217;s not so, I&#8217;d like to think that it is.<\/p>\n<p>The power of photography, so to speak&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>My father-in-law called today morning and said that he will most probably come to visit us next week. I was really surprised to hear that. Last time he was here about one month prior to Olga&#8217;s and mine wedding. That is to say that he was here around June of 2002. Lots of things happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/23\/the-magic-of-photography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The magic of photography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[2420,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-parenting","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8017,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/07\/pictures-from-our-wedding-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":8996,"position":0},"title":"Pictures from our wedding party","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I know I have promised for a long time now to scan and upload pictures from Olga's and my wedding party. 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Anyway, it was a bit dark for shooting there, because the screen of ultrasound machine is turned towards the window, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7964,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/27\/yet-more-scanned-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":8996,"position":2},"title":"Yet more scanned pictures","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I have added yet more scanned pictures to the site. Firstly, family tree was updated with many many pictures. Mostly, these are Olga's relatives (father, mother, sisters, etc). More to come. I have also dug up photographic documentation of one of the last times I was doing sports. 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