

{"id":8102,"date":"2013-04-16T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2013-04-16T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:04:43","slug":"off-to-a-great-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8102","title":{"rendered":"Off to a great start!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8102]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-8105\" title=\"hat &amp; credentials\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-580x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-880x586.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-370x246.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hat-credentials2.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Day one and off to a fantastic start. \u00a0Today was really a lot of fun and it&#8217;s not over yet!! \u00a0I got visit with a lot of old friends, Scott Diussa, Mark Suban, &#8220;Snake&#8221; Barrett, Wayne Bennett, and lots of my NAPP friends, RC, Matt, Brad, Kathy, Dave, and of course, Joe McNally, Moose Peterson, and his sons, new friends like David Ziser, and will many others&#8230;&#8230; \u00a0Today has been a lot fun in other ways as well. \u00a0I delivered a gorgeous print from Jasper Imaging to RC, and he was thrilled!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8102]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-8106\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-270x202.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-880x660.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-350x262.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-370x277.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-666x500.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tonight Sherelene and I will be going back to the great Maggiano&#8217;s Little Italy!! \u00a0Sherelene and I love this restaurant, and tonight is family style, so we will get to sample some different recipes! Your prayers are being answered as I&#8217;ve made a lot of important contacts and can see a lot of good relationships growing out of this event! \u00a0Some wonderful photographers and brothers in Christ are looking strong as future leaders at His Light Events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tomorrow is my first program at noon, so I&#8217;m pumped and ready to go! \u00a0Thanks for you supportive prayers, I will keep you posted!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Another important thing to share, I displayed, thanks to NAPP, allowing it, three very large prints from Jasper Imaging, right near the registration desk. \u00a0They are being received with rave reviews! \u00a0I truly believe that Stephen&#8217;s prints are among the very best you can get. \u00a0I&#8217; e always said that Roger Laudy&#8217;s Image Wizards are the best Aluminum prints I&#8217;ve ever seen, \u00a0Stephen&#8217;s Acrylic face mounts are the same in more conventional prints. \u00a0I&#8217;ve found two printers that can do just about anything I will ever need!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Well, tomorrow the journey continues, thanks for being with me here in spirit!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Day one and off to a fantastic start. \u00a0Today was really a lot of fun and it&#8217;s not over yet!! \u00a0I got visit with a lot of old friends, Scott Diussa, Mark Suban, &#8220;Snake&#8221; Barrett, Wayne Bennett, and lots of my NAPP friends, RC, Matt, Brad, Kathy, Dave, and of course, Joe McNally, Moose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","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=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}