{"id":58490,"date":"2012-04-27T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:15:51","slug":"14-secrets-for-a-happy-artists-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/14-secrets-for-a-happy-artists-life\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Secrets for a Happy Artist&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>1. Find 3 good things every day, whether they are experiences, or objects, or both. Find a way to use them in art.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Make everything special. Embellish your life.<\/p>\n<p>3. Look for Fairy God-mothers and Angels. Be ready for experiences that will delight and surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>4. Play more often.<\/p>\n<p>5. Look for the smiling faces.<\/p>\n<p>6. Wish everyone a happy life.<\/p>\n<p>7. Find something to love about where you are everyday.<\/p>\n<p>8. Make art everyday.<\/p>\n<p>9. Create time for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>10. Honor thy grandmothers as much as possible. (Of course grandfathers need honor too, but historically and culturally we are a little weaker in the honoring grandmother side of things.)<\/p>\n<p>11. Play with the grandchildren as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>12. Create beauty with what you have on hand.<\/p>\n<p>13. Make art with friends. Make art as gifts.<\/p>\n<p>14. Create a list of secrets for a happy life and pass it on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/14secretsforahappyartistslife.blogspot.com\/\">14 Secrets for a Happy Artist&#8217;s Life<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/14-secrets-for-a-happy-artists-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to 14 Secrets for a Happy Artist&#8217;s Life\"><p>1. Find 3 good things every day, whether they are experiences, or objects, or both. Find a way to use them in art. 2. Make everything special. Embellish your life. 3. Look for Fairy God-mothers and Angels. Be ready for experiences that will delight and surprise you. 4. Play more often. 5. Look for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[915],"tags":[288,1068,459,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75357,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58490\/revisions\/75357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}