{"id":1603,"date":"2015-01-29T23:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T07:06:32","slug":"post-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/post-100\/","title":{"rendered":"post #100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my favorite videos of all time, Ira Glass talks about what it means to have your own work disappoint you, and how the only way to respond\u00a0is to keep churning out more work. He talks about how even his own work stunk\u00a0when he started.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BI23U7U2aUY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>For every creative matter there will be\u00a0tension between what you aspire to do, and what you just made in front of you. Keep pushing on and churning out those ideas anyway. Close that gap by returning to your work.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is one way I am trying to do that. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>[Here is\u00a0the <a title=\"Howdy!\" href=\"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/howdy\/\">first<\/a>\u00a0post I wrote back in the summer of 2013\u00a0when I was\u00a0eighteen. Much has changed since then.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my favorite videos of all time, Ira Glass talks about what it means to have your own work disappoint you, and how the only way to respond\u00a0is to keep churning out more work. He talks about how even his own work stunk\u00a0when he started. For every creative matter there will be\u00a0tension between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/post-100\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;post #100&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-pR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}