{"id":37,"date":"2004-10-30T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T02:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-10-31T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T01:10:30","slug":"arsty-fartsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/10\/30\/arsty-fartsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsy fartsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my coworkers had a birthday last week, and to honor the occasion, the rest of us decided to surprise her by vandalizing her office with chinsy birthday decorations.  I unexpectedly was given the task of writing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; in big block letters across her whiteboard.  Naturally my lettering came out awful, and what&#8217;s more, I didn&#8217;t even use a good style. (For some reason it didn&#8217;t occur to me to use the lopsided, cartoony letters that seem to permeate everything I do.  Instead I used a quick, harried, angular, and totally unreadable, undisciplined mess that I rightfully abandoned many years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, at this point I realized just how out of practice I am (which is all the worse since I was never very good to begin with).  I hadn&#8217;t done anything remotely creative or artistic in months. (The last time was when I made the ambigrams.) <\/p>\n<p>So last weekend I started getting back into the groove of fiddling with Photoshop, and now I&#8217;m once again my wanna-be artsy mood.  I wonder how long it&#8217;ll last (and more importantly, if I&#8217;ll get anything accomplished).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my coworkers had a birthday last week, and to honor the occasion, the rest of us decided to surprise her by vandalizing her office with chinsy birthday decorations. I unexpectedly was given the task of writing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; in big block letters across her whiteboard. Naturally my lettering came out awful, and what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}