{"id":10526,"date":"2016-01-14T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=10526"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:22:10","slug":"an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/14\/an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never does what&#8217;s expedient.<\/p>\n<p>Worries about money, but never makes it paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Is jealous of others&#8217; success, but puts his head down and keeps working.<\/p>\n<p>Knows when he strikes a chord, knows when he gets it right. Look for this resonance, this inner light. When you&#8217;ve achieved it, you&#8217;ll get an inner smile.<\/p>\n<p>Knows a career is a journey and you learn through experience.<\/p>\n<p>Risks.<\/p>\n<p>Lives in the world of discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges himself.<\/p>\n<p>Knows that love is the answer, but is sometimes poisoned by hate.<\/p>\n<p>Wants a wide audience more than he wants riches.<\/p>\n<p>Knows not to listen to anybody but himself. Stories in the press are inaccurate, and everyone&#8217;s an individual, on his own journey.<\/p>\n<p>Plays to his strengths, not his weaknesses. Focuses on what he does right, not what he does wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Is rarely good at anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Dies inside when he is not creating.<\/p>\n<p>Questions himself constantly, he not ever thinking of giving up is delusional.<\/p>\n<p>Knows he needs suits, but is reluctant to listen to them on creative\/career matters.<\/p>\n<p>Feels more deeply than the average person.<\/p>\n<p>Gets in touch with his inner tuning fork such that others may resonate.<\/p>\n<p>Is afraid of overloading his audience but desires to overload them. This is an unending conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>Is willing to destroy what he&#8217;s created in order to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Knows that there are charts and awards but it&#8217;s really not a competition.<\/p>\n<p>Knows beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Is a communicator.<\/p>\n<p>Is riddled with feelings of inadequacy. When an artist boasts he is usually covering up insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Needs approval.<\/p>\n<p>Wants fame and fortune, but wouldn&#8217;t know how to live with either if he got them.<\/p>\n<p>Feels pain.<\/p>\n<p>Knows that the medium may be the message, but the medium keeps changing.<\/p>\n<p>Is busy being born, otherwise he&#8217;s dying.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never does what&#8217;s expedient. Worries about money, but never makes it paramount. Is jealous of others&#8217; success, but puts his head down and keeps working. Knows when he strikes a chord, knows when he gets it right. Look for this resonance, this inner light. When you&#8217;ve achieved it, you&#8217;ll get an inner smile. Knows a [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-2JM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10527,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10526\/revisions\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}