{"id":136,"date":"2003-12-04T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2003\/12\/04\/making-stuff-isnt-easy\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"making-stuff-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2003\/12\/04\/making-stuff-isnt-easy\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"making stuff isn&#8217;t easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from time to time i have this huge urge to do something creative.  i&#8217;ve always really wanted to be able to make something cool.  unfortunately, i have very little creativity in me.  even though i&#8217;m really into art and stuff, other than building the ducky car, i really haven&#8217;t made anything of my own.  <\/p>\n<p>over the last several weeks caryn and i have been toying w\/ the idea of building a mobile.  we went to several stores to try to get ideas of how to make one.  finally, after a lot of brainstorming etc, we came up w\/ a plan of how we would design this mobile and what we would build it out of.  it&#8217;s kind of hard to explain what it would look like w\/out drawing it, but basically it would consist of concentric right angles formed out of multi-colored mosaic tiles.<\/p>\n<p>after tracking down the supplies we need to build it (and revising our idea a few times since certain parts did not exist), we spent a whopping 60$ for pieces to make just one mobile.  we started putting it together and&#8230;  ummmm&#8230; errr&#8230; well, now i have this horrible feeling that the mobile will not work out.  all of that planning will probably amount to nothing. argh! oh well&#8230; back to the drawing board&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from time to time i have this huge urge to do something creative. i&#8217;ve always really wanted to be able to make something cool. unfortunately, i have very little creativity in me. even though i&#8217;m really into art and stuff, other than building the ducky car, i really haven&#8217;t made anything of my own. over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2003\/12\/04\/making-stuff-isnt-easy\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;making stuff isn&#8217;t easy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}