{"id":16172,"date":"2018-08-16T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/?p=16172"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:17:53","slug":"how-to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/how-to-be-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be An Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, say goodbye to most friends. Unless they are pursuing the same dream, they&#8217;ll get sick of you. That&#8217;s ok. Nothing personal. You don&#8217;t need that energy around you anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In due time, you will attract the most incredibly supportive people, and you&#8217;ll wonder why you ever settled for less.<\/p>\n<p>Have relentless drive. Dedicate your life to your art. Be ok with not being understood. Love what you do. Spend time alone. A lot of time alone. Learn people. Learn yourself. Be true. Create. Every. Day. Look for inspiration everywhere. Listen. Express your emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, have a talent. Study. Develop your craft. Make it a point to immerse yourself in nature. Find the quiet within. Accept that you are mentally &#8220;unstable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quality, not a flaw. Love your crazy, but manage it.<\/p>\n<p>Fall in love with things your parents never liked or heard of. Take risks. Be genuine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, say goodbye to most friends. Unless they are pursuing the same dream, they&#8217;ll get sick of you. That&#8217;s ok. Nothing personal. You don&#8217;t need that energy around you anyway. In due time, you will attract the most incredibly supportive people, and you&#8217;ll wonder why you ever settled for less. Have relentless drive. Dedicate your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16173,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16172\/revisions\/16173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrechsteiner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}