{"id":15273,"date":"2014-07-10T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2014\/07\/10\/echoes-of-the-seventies\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:36","slug":"echoes-of-the-seventies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2014\/07\/10\/echoes-of-the-seventies\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Seventies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on a big article for Strategic Coach yesterday, one that sprawled around and included a lot of different ideas &#8212; just barely pulling them together in the end. As I outlined and researched it, it grew arms and legs, and it wasn&#8217;t really on-point for what they talk about.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That was exhausting. It did, however, make me realize that I have a pretty good batting average for them: just about everything works out. Except this piece; I wrote to my project manager\/editor and suggested we kill it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, to make it up to them, I pitched a comic strip series based on a conversation I had with Dan, the Coach&#8217;s owner, recently. I think it&#8217;s good, makes a clear, relevant point, and is concise, so hopefully they&#8217;ll go with that, and I&#8217;ll get to draw, too &#8212; which I&#8217;ve been doing lots of lately. Something about that is really bringing back those old summer vacations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Funny how different eras in your life can feel like they&#8217;re closer to the present. The 1970s are definitely echoing right now. It&#8217;s nice, and it reminds me to enjoy the summer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on a big article for Strategic Coach yesterday, one that sprawled around and included a lot of different ideas &#8212; just barely pulling them together in the end. As I outlined and researched it, it grew arms and legs, and it wasn&#8217;t really on-point for what they talk about. That was exhausting. It [&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-15273","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\/15273","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=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}