{"id":52,"date":"2007-11-06T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-11-06T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:21:01","slug":"being-creative-makes-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/being-creative-makes-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Being creative makes me happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_5502.jpg\" style=\"border: 0;\" alt=\"image\" width=\"450\" height=\"265\" \/><br \/>\n<em>tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Something I read once, paraphrased from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Berger\">John Berger<\/a>, art critic and artist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acquiring things is a poor alternative for fashioning objects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHow do I feel after buying something?  Momentarily happy, excited about my purchase.  But that quickly fades.  Creating something, though, gives me immense satisfaction, both in the process of creating and every time I use\/look at\/wear\/share my creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tree Something I read once, paraphrased from John Berger, art critic and artist: Acquiring things is a poor alternative for fashioning objects. How do I feel after buying something? Momentarily happy, excited about my purchase. But that quickly fades. Creating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/being-creative-makes-me-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->