{"id":400,"date":"2009-02-16T04:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-02-16T04:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T12:24:05","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jr3_1380_650n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so technically it&#8217;s 4am on the 16th&#8230; but whatever, who&#8217;s really counting? Valentine&#8217;s Day, or Single&#8217;s Awareness Day for most, was fairly low key for me. I spent most of it with friends, running around, catching up on photography stuff that I felt needed attention.<br \/>\nLater that evening I ended up heading to Back Alley to see the band Dirty Black Summer perform. Ironically, I ended up running into a number of friends there. Kassandra, who I&#8217;m working with on a pinup shoot (see previous blogs), knows the band &#8211; who I know through a friend&#8230; how&#8217;s that for three degrees of separation? I was then introduced to Lauren &#8211; who I also already knew from working together at Green Door for the Blive Couture\/SUBRAGE Fashion Show back in November.<br \/>\nSmall world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jr3_1454_650n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, Monday, was a cruise and lunch with some of the Topdown crew&#8230;<br \/>\nWell, those of us who managed to wake up before noon. A brief cruise though the hills, and then up Highway 1 to Harbor House&#8230; pretty much everything that we ordered was amazing. If it wasn&#8217;t so filling I think a lot of us would have ordered second dishes of something, too.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t take nearly as many photos as I thought I would I rode with Ninj in his car so I could shoot instead of focusing on driving. I have some decent stuff&#8230; but nothing like I hoped to get. Here&#8217;s a quick example of the shots I was getting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jr3_1425_650n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fred and his girl B&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up this week I have meeting with a major parts supplier for some small projects.<br \/>\nAlso, I&#8217;m going to be shooting with Jesse Hart on Tuesday in Hollywood&#8230; so if any of you in or around LA want to do something that night, hit me up!<\/p>\n<p>Night all&#8230; 4:30am is getting pretty late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day everyone! Ok, so technically it&#8217;s 4am on the 16th&#8230; but whatever, who&#8217;s really counting? Valentine&#8217;s Day, or Single&#8217;s Awareness Day for most, was fairly low key for me. I spent most of it with friends, running around, catching up on photography stuff that I felt needed attention. Later that evening I ended up heading to Back Alley to see the band Dirty Black Summer perform. Ironically, I ended up running into a number of friends there. Kassandra, who I&#8217;m working with on a pinup shoot (see previous blogs), knows the band &#8211; who I know through a friend&#8230; how&#8217;s that for three degrees of separation? I was then introduced to Lauren &#8211; who I also already knew from working together at Green Door for the Blive Couture\/SUBRAGE Fashion Show back in November. Small world&#8230; Today, Monday, was a cruise and lunch with some of the Topdown crew&#8230; Well, those of us who managed to wake up before noon. A brief cruise though&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/happy-valentines-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,20,130],"tags":[287,283,285,286,284,116,226,184,282,157,281],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-models","category-personal","tag-coast","tag-fullerton","tag-group-drive","tag-highway-1","tag-kassandra","tag-lauren","tag-mua","tag-s2ki","tag-slide-bar","tag-topdown","tag-valentines-day","is-cat-link-border-bottom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnremus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}