{"id":2826,"date":"2016-05-25T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/05\/close-to-the-gut\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:52:08","slug":"close-to-the-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/05\/close-to-the-gut\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to the Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a telling observation from comedian Louis CK that has relevance to every creative endeavor:<\/p>\n<p><em>When you thwart what\u2019s real about you in order to keep creating content for financial need, you\u2019re just not gonna make it. You\u2019re not gonna keep going. You have your number. It\u2019s very dangerous to be liked by more people than should like you. It\u2019s bad for them, and it\u2019s bad for you. There\u2019s gonna be a shock down the road for them, or you\u2019re gonna dilute yourself and take yourself to a place where you can\u2019t live with who you are. I think that you make an honest account of who you are and you live with the results. The results will be appropriate to who you are\u2026 If you\u2019re saying things just to piss people off, then I don\u2019t know why do it. If you\u2019re saying things just to please people, that\u2019s a short-lived victory. But if you just say the things you believe, and the things you like to say, and that mean something to you \u2014&#0160;if you stay close to the gut \u2014&#0160;then everything will work itself out.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>[via<a href=\"http:\/\/jkglei.com\/\"> jkglei<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a telling observation from comedian Louis CK that has relevance to every creative endeavor: When you thwart what\u2019s real about you in order to keep creating content for financial need, you\u2019re just not gonna make it. You\u2019re not gonna keep going. You have your number. It\u2019s very dangerous to be liked by more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}