{"id":360,"date":"2025-07-17T06:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:03:42","slug":"put-on-a-happy-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/put-on-a-happy-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Put on a happy face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spillman_foundation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spillman_foundation-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spillman_foundation-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard and read some complaints about my facial expression as seen in the official campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HG_election_photo_corrected_sm.jpg\">photo<\/a>. The purpose of this morning&#8217;s post is to offer evidence that I do, in fact, know how to smile. The problem you see, is that I am just not very good at faking a smile. I can only smile if I am right in the middle of doing something that I enjoy. Posing for a head shot for a political campaign is not something that I enjoy doing <strong><em>at<\/em> <em>all<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I respectfully submit for your approval &#8211; <em><strong>me<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; doing some things that I enjoy doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit A (above) Framing the foundation of a house I was building in Louisiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit B (below) On a road trip in my &#8217;68 Volvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122S_smiling-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122S_smiling-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122S_smiling-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibits C &amp; D (below) Flying a homemade kite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_5248-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_5248-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_5248-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kite_2-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibits E &amp; F (below) Sitting astride my motorcycle, while on a cross country adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photochicago-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photochicago-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photochicago-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_0058.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_0058.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_0058-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit G (below) Admiring my car collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/P1050328-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/P1050328-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/P1050328-1-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I rest my case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Comments-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only smile if I am right in the middle of doing something that I enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}