{"id":473932,"date":"2026-02-12T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:14:07","slug":"in-many-ways-the-greatest-self-portrait-ive-ever-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473932\/","title":{"rendered":"In Many Ways the Greatest Self-Portrait I\u2019ve Ever Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date text-center\">\n<p>\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\t<a class=\"post-date-link\" href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/02\/11\/in-many-ways-the-greatest-self-portrait-ive-ever-taken\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 11, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/author\/scalzi\/\" title=\"Posts by John Scalzi\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" data-attachment-id=\"59435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/02\/11\/in-many-ways-the-greatest-self-portrait-ive-ever-taken\/pxl_20260211_164021322\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260211_164021322.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PXL_20260211_164021322\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260211_164021322.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260211_164021322.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260211_164021322.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-000000-border-color wp-image-59435\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this photo captures many things, about me, about my cat, and about the relationship between the two of us. I don\u2019t know how much more can be said. This photo may, in fact, be perfect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 JS<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u2190 <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/02\/10\/the-big-idea-kristina-w-kelly-2\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Idea: Kristina W. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on February 11, 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 I think this photo captures many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-473932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}