{"id":1777,"date":"2011-10-12T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2011-10-12T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:28:58","slug":"expanding-my-filmmaking-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"expanding my filmmaking focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a few months ago, a dear friend of mine who had seen all of the videos i&#8217;d made of my son asked me if i might be willing to come to her house (she lives a few states over) and make a video of her son.\u00c2\u00a0 she had a specific project in mind and i was inspired, so last month i took my first extended baby-free trip since little dude arrived in our lives (3 nights, 4 days!) and flew out to visit her and try my hand at recording someone else&#8217;s kid.\u00c2\u00a0 when i got home, i began the editing process and after a few back-and-forths and input from some other people and a miraculous donation of soundtrack permissions (after a bit of a runaround from an online music jobber, i just contacted the musician directly, explained the project and he happily agreed to allow us unlimited use of his song), here it is for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30221856?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30221856\">a little bit about liam<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user8816431\">Anna Monaghan<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>for more details, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cff.org\/LWC\/AnnaMonaghan18748\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. i had a wonderful visit with my friend and both the happy baby and mr. happy stuff survived my absence just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a few months ago, a dear friend of mine who had seen all of the videos i&#8217;d made of my son asked me if i might be willing to come to her house (she lives a few states over) and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1777\">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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}