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As a photographer I admire a lot of people with skills far greater than mine! \u00a0One off my favorite photographers and friends is Joe McNally. \u00a0To have him<\/span> as a guest in our home and to just spend time together was a great joy and blessing, but to have him say, \u00a0” may I photograph you ?” \u00a0was an honor for sure. \u00a0Even though he was badly handicapped with the subject matter, he captured me with his patented authenticity, I loved the shot!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He caused me to think a little about how blessed I am with some truly great friends! \u00a0My best earthly friend is, of course, Sherelene, my bride! \u00a0Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder how she ever agreed to marry me! \u00a0Then comes my brother, Homer, he has taught me so much, by example! \u00a0 I’ve been blessed with many great people in my life but four stand out as true friends, those kinds of people you can share anything with and rely on! \u00a0Jack Graham, Jim Haverstock, Carl Turner and Tony Rogers are those kinds of friends! \u00a0What a blessing to have them in my life! \u00a0You are truly a blessed man if you can count that many!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have a handful of dear friends that are already with the Lord, and I look forward to giving them a hug again someday! \u00a0Till then I’m truly blessed here!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Him,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a photographer I admire a lot of people with skills far greater than mine! \u00a0One off my favorite photographers and friends is Joe McNally. \u00a0To have him as a guest in our home and to just spend time together was a great joy and blessing, but to have him say, \u00a0” may I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28460,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions\/28460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}