{"id":3503,"date":"2025-03-18T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T02:09:30","slug":"the-artists-joy-in-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s Joy in Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why miss an extra hour of sleep to get up and walk, even if it\u2019s cold and windy?<\/p>\n<p>I think if you ask the walkers who have this level of devotion, they will all say the same thing: \u201cI love it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the \u201cit\u201d may differ among respondents. Some might enjoy the challenge. Others the scenery. Still others the endorphin high or the walking partner (maybe a dog) or the chance of discovery and surprise or the freedom and spontaneity. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Graham called it the \u201cartist\u2019s joy in creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And once you\u2019ve tasted it, you\u2019ll always want more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why miss an extra hour of sleep to get up and walk, even if it\u2019s cold and windy? I think if you ask the walkers who have this level of devotion, they will all say the same thing: \u201cI love it!\u201d Now the \u201cit\u201d may differ among respondents. Some might enjoy the challenge. Others the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}