{"id":213345,"date":"2014-05-03T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/go-into-the-arts-im-not-kidding-the-arts-are\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T00:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T00:15:20","slug":"go-into-the-arts-im-not-kidding-the-arts-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/go-into-the-arts-im-not-kidding-the-arts-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Go into the arts. I\u2019m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven\u2019s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Kurt Vonnegut\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dazed.co.vu\/\" target=\"_blank\">vogueltalia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awabubbles.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">awabubbles<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#and i would add to that don&rsquo;t just create consume \u00a0#consume art \u00a0#like fucking eat it for breakfast man \u00a0#consume poetry \u00a0#meditate over it \u00a0#you will also get an enormous reward\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go into the arts. I\u2019m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven\u2019s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/go-into-the-arts-im-not-kidding-the-arts-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[361,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}