{"id":563,"date":"2014-11-02T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T05:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:03","slug":"turning-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/art-artist\/turning-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning My Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1025120928d-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"autumn at the driveway entrance\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Turning my head from primarily working my graphic arts biz <em>(see zentao.com if curious, though that&#8217;s not the half of it, not even)<\/em> to writing as my focus makes me even more aware of how much work I was doing helping others with their projects while ignoring mine. It&#8217;s a real eye-opener. To suddenly focus on me is all but a completely new experience. In fact, it is a completely new experience. There&#8217;s a sense of utter joy, deeply felt to almost overwhelming, but there&#8217;s also this odd sense of guilt&#8211;a sense that I&#8217;m neglecting something that&#8217;s crucial. So I&#8217;m going to compromise just a little. I won&#8217;t say no to everyone who asks for assistance, just the most presumptive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, writing is actually taking second place to preparing for winter&#8217;s onslaught. I&#8217;m almost done, but the contractor is still way behind reinforcing and reroofing Dad&#8217;s giant garage. And we&#8217;ve a whole other pallet of concrete to mix, probably tomorrow or Tuesday. I am NOT looking forward to that. At all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning my head from primarily working my graphic arts biz (see zentao.com if curious, though that&#8217;s not the half of it, not even) to writing as my focus makes me even more aware of how much work I was doing helping others with their projects while ignoring mine. It&#8217;s a real eye-opener. To suddenly focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,123,134,8],"tags":[141,144,145,146,147,148,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}