{"id":554,"date":"2018-09-06T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/?p=554"},"modified":"2018-09-06T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:53:12","slug":"dianes-journey-a-story-told-through-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Diane&#8217;s Journey &#8211; A story told through photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our September meeting started off with a very special presentation by Diane Leopard, Clinical Complementary Therapist. Diane received recognition for her work in this field in the form of a prize, which she spent on a camera. Diane enrolled in some evening classes to enhance her photography skills and one of the assignments involved documenting a journey in the form of\u00a0 a series of photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Diane opted to document her own journey. A journey through diagnosis, treatment and recovery from cancer. Despite an unusually noisy venue, Diane gave her very personal presentation and no-one in the group was unmoved. Photographs have a way of bypassing many words and directly evoking an emotion or a feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling we haven&#8217;t heard the last of this presentation, and the final thoughts came in a poem which we hope to publish here in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to Diane for a thought provoking, and courageous piece of work!<\/p>\n<div style=''><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headcases2\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-button=\"blue\" data-text-color=\"#800080\" data-link-color=\"#800080\" data-lang=\"en\">Follow @headcases2<\/a>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/cmsvoteup.com\/category\/wordpress-plugins\/\" title=\"Get Twitter Follow Button WordPress Plugin\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmsvoteup.com\/images\/power_by_2x2.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our September meeting started off with a very special presentation by Diane Leopard, Clinical Complementary Therapist. Diane received recognition for her work in this field in the form of a prize, which she spent on a camera. Diane enrolled in some evening classes to enhance her photography skills and one of the assignments involved documenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}