{"id":5166,"date":"2012-03-30T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:00:37","slug":"scratching-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/scratching-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratching the Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m both troubled and inspired by this quote from the book Scandinavian Stitches. I think mostly I&#8217;m inspired. It makes me take some pressure off myself. Also, I&#8217;m a mom artist now, which is quite a different beast than a non-parent artist. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that to happen, but now that I&#8217;m on the other side, I see very clearly that my world is incredibly different from when before Juniper was born, and forever will be. So that means finding new ways to create. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If it weren&#8217;t for my children, I would probably still be looking for my deep artistic expression. Having children helped me realize that sometimes scratching the surface is enough to find your creative flow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/7029803855\/\" title=\"scandanavian stitches by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7094\/7029803855_9e35a5a0e3.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"scandanavian stitches\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m both troubled and inspired by this quote from the book Scandinavian Stitches. I think mostly I&#8217;m inspired. It makes me take some pressure off myself. Also, I&#8217;m a mom artist now, which is quite a different beast than a non-parent artist. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that to happen, but now that I&#8217;m on the other [&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-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","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=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}