{"id":5001,"date":"2020-01-25T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billythekidonline.com\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2020-01-25T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:57:03","slug":"art-matters-and-why-im-doing-this-public-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/2020\/01\/25\/art-matters-and-why-im-doing-this-public-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Matters (and Why I&#8217;m Doing This) &#8211; Public Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0062906208\/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_bGjlEbJSDJ78Y\">this book<\/a> on my coffee table and read it at least once a week. All the way through.<\/p><p>Do you ever find yourself, living in your own life&#8230;and you don\u2019t remember who you are?<\/p><p>I was thinking about the times in my life when all I did was music. I wrote, toured recorded, and then repeated all that. Every once in awhile I would try to tackle a huge project like learning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLWyHqds4XjhJq4TNYEp9_clbv3oFyR6ZT\">31 Covers in 31 Days<\/a> but mainly I just&#8230;coasted. If I had an idea, or a convenient collaboration popped up, it was something to do and usually enjoyable.<\/p><p>I don\u2019t know what I did with the moments in between but I feel like there were so many moments in between when I was just doing nothing. So here I find myself, in my present day life, doing many somethings, and there\u2019s no time to sit around and do nothing, which is the usual time when a song seems to write itself.<\/p><p>Every time someone comes to me to help finish an idea or figure out why (continued here&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/33445416?fbclid=IwAR3cyE-ufDHBhvvRUNiOE8-ptzEkjd3R_NbrL-RyAiL8nQMgkXza10UVN-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/33445416<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep this book on my coffee table and read it at least once a week. All the way through. Do you ever find yourself, living in your own life&#8230;and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}