{"id":181,"date":"2008-05-14T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-05-14T20:34:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T20:34:27","slug":"in_a_funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/in_a_funk\/","title":{"rendered":"in a funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aaf.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" lowsrc=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aaf.thumb.jpg\"  src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album80\/aaf.sized.jpg\" width=350 alt=\"outside\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a really frustrated mood this week.  I&#8217;ve been thinking that on the whole, the week itself has been good (a free iced coffee from the new coffee shop in town for lunch yesterday, a phone call from my very best friend, Kate, and my summer break only a few weeks away) but I think I&#8217;m feeling out of touch with my creating.  Instead of feeling inspired, I&#8217;m feeling run down and out of new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I need to build up my confidence in new projects, and be happy with those that I want to finish.  I feel as though I base my success solely on the opinions of others, and I just think I need to move past that.<\/p>\n<p>This, apparently is what a gloomy, chilly, rainy day in May does for my confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a really frustrated mood this week. I&#8217;ve been thinking that on the whole, the week itself has been good (a free iced coffee from the new coffee shop in town for lunch yesterday, a phone call from my very best friend, Kate, and my summer break only a few weeks away) but I <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/in_a_funk\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}