{"id":858,"date":"2010-03-10T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcaruso.com\/~mhoward\/?page_id=858"},"modified":"2023-09-13T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:00:22","slug":"things-ive-learned-from-smarter-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/?page_id=858","title":{"rendered":"Always Be Creating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This website is in blog format. I chose the format very intentionally. In this format, my newest work is posted at the top, and with very few exceptions, I post all of the work I&#8217;m involved in creating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I always proudest of my latest work? Not necessarily. But keeping a running record of what I&#8217;ve been doing most recently motivates me to keep making more, and hopefully to keep making things I can be proud of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand this isn&#8217;t a conventional approach to presenting work. I don&#8217;t curate portfolio-worthy pieces, and perhaps that&#8217;s unwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, I genuinely believe I&#8217;m only as good as the last thing I made, and I&#8217;m willing to stake my reputation on it. Dig deep into my work timeline and you&#8217;ll find a Cannes Grand Prix Winner. You&#8217;ll find an Andy or two. You&#8217;ll find several Gold Pencils, and Pencils of other flavors as well. But that was yesterday.\u00a0What matters most to me is what I&#8217;m creating today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is in blog format. I chose the format very intentionally. In this format, my newest work is posted at the top, and with very few exceptions, I post all of the work I&#8217;m involved in creating. Am I always proudest of my latest work? Not necessarily. But keeping a running record of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehowardcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}