{"id":454,"date":"2010-01-19T19:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-01-19T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:58:28","slug":"new-lease-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"New lease on life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">Before I sign off on <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura; font-style: normal;\"><strong><em>Serendipity<\/em><\/strong>, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">I want to show the new location. The picture tells it like it is. Today with the sun setting after a beautiful winter day, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><strong>Serendipity<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"> already looks idyllic on site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MH06795.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"_MH06795\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MH06795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MH06795.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MH06795-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">In 1991, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura; font-style: normal;\"><strong><em>Serendipity<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">was only a couple years old. Roger Meekins, the original developer of the\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura; font-style: normal;\"><strong><em>Mirlo Beach<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">subdivision had asked me to make some photographs for him. He was proud of the new development, and especially proud of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura; font-style: normal;\"><strong><em>Serendipity<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-456\" title=\"dune\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dune.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dune.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dune-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Futura; font-style: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/aerial-view1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"aerial view\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/aerial-view1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/aerial-view1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/aerial-view1-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\">As you can see from this 1991 aerial view, there was plenty of dune and beach way back then. That&#8217;s <strong><em>Serendipity<\/em><\/strong> on the far right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I sign off on Serendipity, I want to show the new location. The picture tells it like it is. Today with the sun setting after a beautiful winter day, Serendipity already looks idyllic on site. In 1991, Serendipity was only a couple years old. Roger Meekins, the original developer of the\u00a0Mirlo Beach subdivision had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-photography","category-beach","category-buildings","category-outer-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}