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I wasn’t planning on sharing the photos from the day the election was called for Biden for a couple of reasons. \u00a0For starters, they aren’t technically very good photos. \u00a0They’re blurry, particularly the photos taken at dusk. \u00a0I had a slow lens and I didn’t increase the ISO enough because I didn’t want any noise (but apparently blurry photos were fine?). \u00a0Seriously, what kind of photographer makes a decision like that?<\/p>\n

Secondly, the photos are “old”. \u00a0So many other things have happened since the election was called. \u00a0A bunch of redneck insurgents stormed our Capitol with the intent to do violence. \u00a0It’s been discovered that people we trust to lead our country and keep us safe were a part of insurgency (this might be the scariest thing out of everything – who can we trust anymore?). Biden has been sworn in despite the aforementioned insurgent rednecks. \u00a0AMANDA GORMAN stole the show at the inauguration. \u00a0I think she should be a speech writer for Biden and deliver all of his national addresses in poem form. \u00a0And most recently a bunch of angry nerds ruined Wall Street’s attempt to manipulate the stock market.<\/p>\n

I changed my mind because these photos in all of their technical failures remind me of a very joyous day and I need that right now. The day the election was called my neighborhood celebrated. \u00a0Cars drove up and down Clark Street honking and waving flags. \u00a0People played music and danced in the streets. \u00a0Mayor Lightfoot even rolled up like she was the Queen of England and gave a speech. \u00a0There was a collective sigh of relief that day. \u00a0For the first time in four years I thought perhaps our country wasn’t as doomed as I thought it was.<\/p>\n

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People waving flags and signs from their windows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of people waving Pride flags from their cars. I loved the look of joy on this man’s face as the car drove by.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This couple in the vintage Bug waving a flag screams Americana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mayor Lightfoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I wasn’t planning on sharing the photos from the day the election was called for Biden for a couple of reasons. \u00a0For starters, they aren’t technically very good photos. \u00a0They’re blurry, particularly the photos taken at dusk. \u00a0I had a slow lens and I didn’t increase the ISO enough because I didn’t want any noise … Continue reading “Honk 4 Democracy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[54,55],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago","tag-democracy","tag-flag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/payQKs-fY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}