{"id":461,"date":"2017-08-04T16:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T15:29:08","slug":"dont-let-others-sap-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/dont-let-others-sap-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let Others Sap You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think who you spend your time with is the biggest determination of what kind of creative<br \/>\nlevel you have in life. When you are around creative people, they continually find ways to<br \/>\nstay engaged and more creative, and you find yourself doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have heard of the quote, \u201cYou are the average of the five people you hang<br \/>\naround with the most.\u201d To me, this is sobering. I include not just people, but I say you are<br \/>\nalso the average of the five things you spend your time doing (obviously, this is beyond<br \/>\nwhat you have to do in life like the never ending laundry pile). Are you only playing apps<br \/>\non your phone in your spare time? Are you only watching TV, and if so, what are those<br \/>\n\u201cfriends\u201d telling you about life?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let others steal your creativity <strong>or<\/strong> hinder your own growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alike short film\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/194276412?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think who you spend your time with is the biggest determination of what kind of creative level you have in life. When you are around creative people, they continually find ways to stay engaged and more creative, and you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/dont-let-others-sap-you\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,12,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative","category-inspirational","category-making-books","category-share-with-kids"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aug-4-2017-Dont-Let-Society-Sap-You-L.A.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5khoZ-7r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}