{"id":4917,"date":"2011-03-14T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:18:47","slug":"reminder-to-follow-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/reminder-to-follow-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder to Follow Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a million miles an hour about my life, where it’s been, where it’s going, where it is now. And I wanted to make sure I try and remember this. So here’s a letter to myself:<\/p>\n

Follow joy, don’t take life too seriously because it’s a waste of energy. And that means art, don’t take it too seriously, just make it. It’s too confusing otherwise. Meaning comes later… maybe it doesn’t even matter. You’ll figure out where to go once you can start making things on a more regular basis. <\/p>\n

Here’s a clue: music. You love music. Remember those paintings you did with audio electronic schematics? Those were fun and they felt good. People told you otherwise and you got confused. Maybe it’s time to go back to the beginning. That music map? That was awesome, do more of those, ok?<\/p>\n

\"audiophile<\/a><\/p>\n

\"indie<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2??I am waiting for you, Vizzini. You told me to go back to the beginning. So I have. This is where I am, and this is where I\u00e2??ll stay. I will not be moved.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In any case, just do what you can to make more. There’s nothing wrong with multiple directions, but try to reign it in a little, ok? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a million miles an hour about my life, where it’s been, where it’s going, where it is now. And I wanted to make sure I try and remember this. So here’s a letter to myself: Follow joy, don’t take life too seriously because it’s a waste of energy. And that means art, […]<\/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-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}