{"id":591,"date":"2008-05-17T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-05-17T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T01:41:00","slug":"bloggers-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bloggers-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers&#8217; Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handsome street-style blogger Craig of <a href=\"http:\/\/altamiranyc.blogspot.com\/\">Altamira NYC<\/a> was kind enough to arrange a <a href=\"http:\/\/altamiranyc.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/announcing-bloggers-meeting-soho-park.html\">bloggers&#8217; get-together<\/a> this evening. Be sure to keep an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/altamiranyc.blogspot.com\/\">his blog<\/a> for photos. He took a few pictures of me standing on the street and after a shot or two, suggested I try a pose that looked a more &#8220;feminine.&#8221; This advice &#8212; coming so soon after my disastrous attempts to compose my face for <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/americas-next-top-model-wendyb.html\">Marie Claire<\/a>, my evening of <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/good-photographer-bad-subject.html\">inflatable cheeks<\/a>, and the fact that hairstylist-to-the-stars <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/ihog-gets-haircut-vicariously.html\">Keith Carpenter<\/a> so despaired of getting a decent photo of me that he told me to go home and practice poses in the mirror &#8212; has convinced me that I am graceless enough to get a starring role on America&#8217;s Next Crap Model.  Imagine the fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/jay-manuel\/person\/257494\/summary.html\">Jay Manual <\/a>would have rolling his eyes at me. Tyra, I&#8217;m waiting by the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I wore the Ossie Clark dress I won on eBay thanks to Sharon Rose, who <a href=\"http:\/\/sharonrosepixie.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Ossie%20Clark\">pointed it out<\/a>. This is currently my favorite Ossie. Thanks, Sharon Rose!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Ossie%20Clark\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SC-FrtqqRiI\/AAAAAAAADL4\/54FNXihMjRQ\/s320\/20080517_0385.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201523080675608098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Photo by MrB &#8212; Craig&#8217;s will be much better!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>All the bloggers in attendance were so nice. I figure I should leave the full report and photography to Craig, but I can&#8217;t resist sharing a shot of <a href=\"http:\/\/galadarling.com\/\">iCiNG<\/a>&#8216;s Gala Darling.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/galadarling.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SC-G8tqqRjI\/AAAAAAAADMA\/deR0rgNfcs4\/s320\/20080517_0380.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201524472245012018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She really IS darling!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>And the beauteous <a href=\"http:\/\/bobble-bee.blogspot.com\/\">Patricia of Bobble-Bee<\/a>, who was sporting a fabulous hairdo, must be thanked for bringing me a gift from Spain.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bobble-bee.blogspot.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SC-H_tqqRkI\/AAAAAAAADMI\/0fFvFm3g_lg\/s320\/20080517_0382.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201525623296247362\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Red is my favorite color.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I had to leave a little early to attend a friend&#8217;s elopement party, so I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing how the rest of the evening went.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/altamiranyc.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/saturdays-blogger-meeting-in-review.html\">Craig&#8217;s link<\/a>. 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He took a few pictures of me standing on the street and after a shot or two, suggested I try a pose that looked a more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bloggers-delight\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-ossie-clark","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}