{"id":5955,"date":"2017-07-03T16:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:46:54","slug":"pure-michigan-summer-vacation-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/pure-michigan-summer-vacation-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Michigan &#8211; Summer Vacation Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"5965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/pure-michigan-summer-vacation-begins\/poster_puremichigan_sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"poster_PureMichigan_sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-395x600.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-674x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-395x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-395x600.jpg 395w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/poster_PureMichigan_sm.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>To kick off the first days of summer vacation we spent a week in Michigan visiting family and doing fun activities. Mini-golf, Dave &amp; Busters and seeing a movie are just some of the highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While everything I was shooting was supposed to be for this year&#8217;s &#8220;Summer video&#8221;, I couldn&#8217;t help myself and created a very short video of our Michigan trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thumb.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PureMichigan_v3_FlowPlayer.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PureMichigan_v3-ATV.m4v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATV Download<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/PureMichigan_v3-HBRM.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HBRM Download<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/222956543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch on VIMEO<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off the first days of summer vacation we spent a week in Michigan visiting family and doing fun activities. 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While everything I was shooting was supposed to be for this year&#8217;s &#8220;Summer video&#8221;, I couldn&#8217;t help myself and created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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}},"categories":[8,4,43,5],"tags":[13,417,328,145,407,170,387],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","category-text","category-travel","category-video","tag-andrew","tag-atv","tag-featured","tag-maximus","tag-summer-vacation","tag-sydney","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-1y3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5544,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/easter-weekend-in-michigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":5955,"position":0},"title":"Easter Weekend in Michigan","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"March 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0What a great fun filled trip to Michigan this weekend. 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