{"id":338,"date":"2015-01-03T14:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-01-03T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:20:00","slug":"life-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/life-in-the-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"It's already the second post and I am suffering from writer's block. We're a few days into the new year, the Christmas stuff is still up and I am really ready to move on from the holiday season. It was crazy. I started a new job at AAA and it's up in Costa Mesa. I had started my own Design business a few years ago and it just wasn't pulling in enough monkey. I had been looking for work for a while and one of my main requirements is that i didn't want to commute. Funny how that worked out... my commute is 1 1\/2 both ways. As my dad said, \"we can get used to anything\". That begs the question on whether we should settle for anything. I say no but I do need to work and having a job is better than no job. This is a short-term solution. However I will say that the people are really nice, there is stability there and lots of directions I could go... options are nice.\r\n\r\nI guess this post is about doing what need to be done in the short-term to obtain long-term goals. You never know where the baby steps take you. Having a goal helps you stay the course of the direction you want to go. My end goal is to provide for my family, have a career in graphic design, and maintain a healthy balance.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">It&#8217;s already the second post and I am suffering from writer&#8217;s block. We&#8217;re a few days into the new year, the Christmas stuff is still up and I am really ready to move on from the holiday season. It was crazy. I started a new job at AAA and it&#8217;s up in Costa Mesa. I had started my own Design&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/life-in-the-balance\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0778.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jZY0-5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaltconvention.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}