{"id":8450,"date":"2014-04-10T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:46:02","slug":"my-favorite-things-laila-washington-d-c-wedding-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/personal\/my-favorite-things-laila-washington-d-c-wedding-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite things, Laila: Washington D.C. Wedding Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the type of girl that if everyone has it, I probably don&#8217;t want it.\u00a0 This applies to almost everything in my life.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why that is, but as an example, I remember wanting to paint some walls in my house gray and the very next month Better Homes and Garden&#8217;s color of the month in the magazine was gray.\u00a0 Pretty soon gray walls and gray accessories were popping up everywhere on pinterest (disclaimer, I do have gray kitchen cabinets).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything wrong with wanting to stay on trend, so don&#8217;t misunderstand.\u00a0 For some reason I just want everything that I do to be different; not in a loud die my hair blue kind of way, but in a subtle, that is &#8220;Me&#8221; kind of way.\u00a0 When we set out to build our house, I knew I didn&#8217;t want the standard dark wood floors and it&#8217;s not because they&#8217;re not pretty, but I just wanted something different.\u00a0 I suppose it speaks to what my mom always called my &#8220;independent personality.&#8221; \u00a0 So when I stumbled upon this unique scent, it didn&#8217;t take me long to decide it would become part of my favorite things.\u00a0 It may have something to do with my Norwegian heritage, I don&#8217;t know, but I simply love this scent!\u00a0 It has an infusion of Norwegian wildflowers with a light touch of fruity overtones and the combination is pretty killer.\u00a0 Yesterday I went to grab a fruit smoothie and the guy at the checkout counter even asked me what I was wearing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s noticeable and subtle, all at the same time.\u00a0 You can get yours at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.nordstrom.com\/c\/laila-perfume\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Nordstrom<\/span><\/a>, or if you&#8217;re going to Disney anytime soon, go to Norway in Epcot and pick yours up there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Virginia-Wedding-Photographer-Favorite-Product_072.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1214\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the type of girl that if everyone has it, I probably don&#8217;t want it.\u00a0 This applies to almost everything in my life.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why that is, but as an example, I remember wanting to paint some walls in my house gray and the very next month Better Homes and Garden&#8217;s color of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,131],"tags":[317,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-8450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal","7":"category-products","8":"tag-favorite-products-post","9":"tag-virginia-wedding-photographer","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8452,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions\/8452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dujourblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}