{"id":3521,"date":"2024-06-04T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:16:00","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-on-going-into-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2024\/06\/04\/kurt-vonnegut-on-going-into-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut on going into arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cGo into the arts. I&#8217;m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8212; Kurt Vonnegut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/17931-if-you-want-to-really-hurt-you-parents-and-you\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/17931-if-you-want-to-really-hurt-you-parents-and-you<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The full quote starts with &#8220;If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don&#8217;t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts&#8230;&#8221; I don&#8217;t think this is the most relevant part of the quote though, so I omitted it. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGo into the arts. I&#8217;m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}