{"id":14459,"date":"2023-07-08T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2023\/07\/08\/wahey\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:57","slug":"wahey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2023\/07\/08\/wahey\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"post__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1868\/Scan2023-07-08_092022.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Diary comic: Summer holiday, making a new sketchbook, off to Scotland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1375\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hm, that&#8217;s how I wanted to compose the first panel, but in so doing I&#8217;ve made myself left-handed (which I&#8217;m not). Ah well, take some points off my creative licence.<\/p>\n<p>As for the last panel, it&#8217;s a tricky balance, finding the free time to do the creative work I like to do, but also not feeling like I have to produce things all the time &#8212; that it&#8217;s okay to just rest.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about that this week, how I&#8217;m jealous of people like my husband who just do their work without this feeling like they have to <em>get somewhere<\/em> with it, to get famous or any of that bunkum. At this point, that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m after, but in any of the creative arts, I feel that&#8217;s the standard we&#8217;re held to: &#8220;Oh, would I have heard of you? Is your work acclaimed\/in shops\/in galleries?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody ever says, &#8220;Oh, are you a <em>famous <\/em>dentist?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm, that&#8217;s how I wanted to compose the first panel, but in so doing I&#8217;ve made myself left-handed (which I&#8217;m not). Ah well, take some points off my creative licence. As for the last panel, it&#8217;s a tricky balance, finding the free time to do the creative work I like to do, but also not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}