{"id":135,"date":"2011-03-11T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/?p=135"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:22:15","slug":"making-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/2011\/03\/11\/making-things\/","title":{"rendered":"making things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no, i haven&#8217;t forgotten you!<\/p>\n<p>thing-a-day ended, and i planned to give myself a break, but not quite this long. life has been busy.. but wasn&#8217;t it also really busy when i was making things every day? i really do work well with outlined constraints. perhaps i will plan to post at least once a week. perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>thing-a-day felt pretty successful for me this year. i made a lot of things i&#8217;d been meaning to make, used up supplies, learned some new things and got my creativity flowing. it isn&#8217;t quite feasible for me (or most people) to keep up that pace for a longer period. life is busy, and some days you just don&#8217;t feel like making something!  but it did remind me that it&#8217;s really not that difficult to create things.<\/p>\n<p>one of my biggest difficulties in life is lack of motivation and overcoming inertia. if i just get started, it&#8217;s not that hard to do creative things. making these things was a good reminder that the inertia hurdle can be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>i feel pretty good about the kinds of things i made. perhaps a bit too focused on sewing and cooking, but what are you going to do when you have towers of fabric and cooking classes to teach?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136\" title=\"type of things\" src=\"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph.png 600w, https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph-125x96.png 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137\" title=\"recipient of things\" src=\"http:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph-2.png 600w, https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/graph-2-125x96.png 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no, i haven&#8217;t forgotten you! thing-a-day ended, and i planned to give myself a break, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waste.org\/starfive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}