{"id":1029,"date":"2010-04-07T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2010-04-07T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T03:04:00","slug":"what-im-thinking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m thinking about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not merely a feeling.<br \/>\n<embed id=VideoPlayback src=http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=3419835744978353610&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application\/x-shockwave-flash> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also still reading Seth Godin&#8217;s Linchpin. Godin believes that the new economy values artists. He says, &#8220;Art is unique, new, and challenging to the status quo. It&#8217;s not decoration, it&#8217;s something that causes change.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He also says, &#8220;Most of all, art involves labor. Not the labor of lifting a brush or typing a sentence, but the emotional labor of doing something difficult, taking a risk and extending yourself.&#8221; He is not talking merely about making a painting or writing a book. Art can be done wherever you are, even in a cubicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not merely a feeling. I&#8217;m also still reading Seth Godin&#8217;s Linchpin. Godin believes that the new economy values artists. He says, &#8220;Art is unique, new, and challenging to the status quo. It&#8217;s not decoration, it&#8217;s something that causes change.&#8221; He also says, &#8220;Most of all, art involves labor. Not the labor of lifting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I&#8217;m thinking about&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jasons-super-fantastic-bookclub","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}