{"id":1566,"date":"2008-10-29T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2008-10-29T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:24:29","slug":"i-found-my-special-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/i-found-my-special-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"I found my special purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I regained my identity today in some way. I know that sounds weird, but I think I was struggling with a half artist\/half web developer identity. I was feeling very <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiple_personality_disorder\">DID<\/a>. But I don&#8217;t know, maybe it&#8217;s this amazing tea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redblossomtea.com\/\">Red Blossom<\/a> putting a spring back in my step, maybe this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnc.com\/sm-gnc-preventive-nutrition-triple-cleanse--pi-2134106.html\">cleanse <\/a>is really doing something, or maybe I&#8217;ve just been out of school long enough now for some of the myopic effects to wear off.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I feel fantastic. I&#8217;m working on a site for <a href=\"http:\/\/glenmoriwaki.com\/art_site\">Glen<\/a>, looks like I&#8217;ll be doing a really fun site for a landscaping company that I can hopefully do some illustrating for, I&#8217;m drooling over scientific illustration books, thinking about css and gauche paint at the same time, Tom and I have started working on our record, and I&#8217;ve been adding to my future recipe book by posting to my <a href=\"http:\/\/alannaclarice.blogspot.com\/\">food blog<\/a>. I&#8217;m busy and happy, tired and content, and I understand I&#8217;ll always feel tired because there are too many fun things to do in this world. I&#8217;m ok with tired, and am in fact thankful for it. And I&#8217;m also feeling better about balancing web development with art because I do really believe code is art, I got that feeling back today and I&#8217;m so excited about it for the first time in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the myopia is clearing, I can see the future and it looks oh so bright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I regained my identity today in some way. I know that sounds weird, but I think I was struggling with a half artist\/half web developer identity. I was feeling very DID. But I don&#8217;t know, maybe it&#8217;s this amazing tea from Red Blossom putting a spring back in my step, maybe this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}