{"id":3072,"date":"2010-12-27T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2010\/12\/not-in-the-mood\/"},"modified":"2010-12-27T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:32:39","slug":"not-in-the-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2010\/12\/not-in-the-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Not In The Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been a longtime fan of the cartoonist Lynda Barry, whose quirky view of the world is amusing and spot-on at the same time.&#0160; Over the years Ann and I have collected many of her comic collections and a few years ago we attended and enjoyed immmensely the Off\u2013Broadway performance of her play, &quot;The Good Times Are Killing Me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>When I saw that she had put together a book about creativity entitled &quot;What It Is,&quot; I immediately ordered it.&#0160; Though it&#39;s not quite what I expected (typical Lynda Barry) it&#39;s crammed with doodles, comic characters and pithy observations on creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s one such pearl of wisdom:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;It took a long time to realize that I didn&#39;t need to be in the mood to move my brush before I picked it up,&quot; she writes. &quot;All I needed to do was move the brush and my mood would follow the trail.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been a longtime fan of the cartoonist Lynda Barry, whose quirky view of the world is amusing and spot-on at the same time.&#0160; Over the years Ann and I have collected many of her comic collections and a few years ago we attended and enjoyed immmensely the Off\u2013Broadway performance of her play, &quot;The Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","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=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}