{"id":30,"date":"2017-07-11T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:35:06","slug":"creative-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/creative-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170711_180620-e1499811244183-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/>R ~I have a confession: I did\u00a0<em>not<\/em> enjoy public school. I don&#8217;t blame the teachers&#8211;they had a room full of 20-30 kids, and there wasn&#8217;t time to cater to the one who learned faster than some of his classmates, but only if he was paying attention. Spoiler: that wasn&#8217;t often. What was I doing instead of listening to explanations about the Spanish Missions in California or how to deal with significant figures in chemistry?<\/p>\n<p>I was doodling. Or reading. But mostly doodling.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it was something recognizable, but not usually&#8211;people are hard to draw, and I wasn&#8217;t trying to create art, it was just to pass the time. Lectures and punishments didn&#8217;t even slow me down. I filled pages and pages with squiggles and lines and monsters and flowers and machines.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to about a month ago, when we opened up our Etsy shop. I know writers frequently get the question, &#8220;Where do your ideas come from?&#8221; or &#8220;Where do you get your inspiration?&#8221; and the answers vary based on the person. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to get the same question regarding the jewelry I make. I think I gave my friend some sort of non-answer like, &#8220;Oh, you know, all around me&#8221; or something equally blank, because I hadn&#8217;t ever really thought about it like that.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the answer, though, my friends. I owe it all to Public School. Without it, I wouldn&#8217;t have spent\u00a0<em>years<\/em> honing my squiggles and lines!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R ~I have a confession: I did\u00a0not enjoy public school. I don&#8217;t blame the teachers&#8211;they had a room full of 20-30 kids, and there wasn&#8217;t time to cater to the one who learned faster than some of his classmates, but only if he was paying attention. Spoiler: that wasn&#8217;t often. What was I doing instead&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fromtheworkbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewelandhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}