{"id":6788,"date":"2013-05-25T00:24:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2013-05-25T00:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:34:06","slug":"bring-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/bring-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring it On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only if your camera and flash are water-resistant, do you challenge the monks up on stage with &#8220;Bring it on!&#8221;. The normally gentle guys took it seriously and gave me and the camera a good splashing. They seemed very happy with the wet result.<\/p>\n<p>The holy water blessing is a Buddhist Wesak Day tradition at the Maha Vihara Temple. It is normally a gentle sprinkle, though. The OM-D lived to tell. Didn&#8217;t realise there were so many flower petals in the water until it was frozen by the high speed flash.<\/p>\n<p>Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f4, 1\/30 sec with FL-50R Flash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6789\" title=\"Bring it On!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking.jpg\" alt=\"Bring it On!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunking-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only if your camera and flash are water-resistant, do you challenge the monks&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/bring-it-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,378,563,519,9],"tags":[883,676,1504,1503,114,511,239,678,1271,675],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-festivals","category-events","category-instagram","category-omd","category-photography","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhist","tag-maha-vihara","tag-monks","tag-olympus","tag-om-d","tag-temple","tag-vesak","tag-water-resistance","tag-wesak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}