{"id":213,"date":"2026-01-15T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:40:06","slug":"eye-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/eye-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MEG20422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MEG20422.jpg 763w, https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MEG20422-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Panda, Shanghai Zoo -December 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A moment before, the panda was looking elsewhere. But for a moment, it looked at my lens &#8211; and it feels like it is looking at us. We wonder what he is thinking &#8211; Who are all these people? Or perhaps he is lost in panda housekeeping. And then he looked away. The eye contact makes all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moment before, the panda was looking elsewhere. But for a moment, it looked at my lens &#8211; and it feels like it is looking at us. We wonder what he is thinking &#8211; Who are all these people? Or perhaps he is lost in panda housekeeping. And then he looked away. The eye contact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/eye-contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eye Contact<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[80,81,79],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter","tag-panda","tag-portrait","tag-shanghaizoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmshackleton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}