{"id":397,"date":"2010-12-31T20:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-06-24T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T14:39:31","slug":"taking-stock-changing-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"taking stock, changing directions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>howdy guys, gals, and others.  i&#8217;m sorry for the announced (and unannounced) periods of m.i.a.ness.  december had some expected (and unexpected) distractions, and before i realized it, the month had eaten itself.  (&#8230;oops.)<\/p>\n<p>and now 2011 is drawing near!  i&#8217;m almost categorically against new year&#8217;s resolutions, <em>per se<\/em>, but i do appreciate careful year-end thought and reflection over the actions and events that have led you to this point, and where you&#8217;d like to go from here (in all areas of life, <em>including<\/em> one&#8217;s blog :)).<\/p>\n<p>one of the things i&#8217;ve wanted to do for quite a while is get back to some &#8220;serious&#8221; drawing &#8211; that is, the kind where i really push myself, rather than just dialing in recycled images that&#8217;ve shown up here for years.<\/p>\n<p>and so that&#8217;s what i&#8217;ve been doing, and hope to continue doing.  zoey got me some proper pencils\/charcoals and sketchbooks for christmas, and i&#8217;m getting back to drawing for the first time in over a decade.  i&#8217;d like to share some of what i&#8217;ve done recently, and so to atone (at least a little) for my absence, i&#8217;ll put up one drawing daily for the next week or so.  hopefully, these will continue to be a regular part of what you see here, along with the more &#8220;traditional&#8221; stuff.<\/p>\n<p>all in all, i must admit, 2010 has been pretty damn good to me.  i can&#8217;t even imagine what 2011 has in store.<\/p>\n<p>happy new day to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>howdy guys, gals, and others. i&#8217;m sorry for the announced (and unannounced) periods of m.i.a.ness. december had some expected (and unexpected) distractions, and before i realized it, the month had eaten itself. (&#8230;oops.) and now 2011 is drawing near! i&#8217;m almost categorically against new year&#8217;s resolutions, per se, but i do appreciate careful year-end thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,37,6,7],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","tag-holiday","tag-text","tag-updates","tag-zoey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/suki\/realtoo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}