{"id":12983,"date":"2024-05-22T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:14:22","slug":"learning-to-let-go-would-be-easier-if-it-wasnt-a-piece-of-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12983","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Let Go Would Be Easier If It Wasn&#8217;t A Piece Of My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted from a Facebook memory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My first grade teacher wrote in my record that Bruce &#8220;&#8230;takes excessive interest in personal art projects.&#8221; Years later my high school art teacher, Frank Moran, one of the best teachers a kid could ever have, approved when he saw me taking apart a project I&#8217;d spent days working on, so I could start over. Don&#8217;t let yourself get stuck trying to make something work that isn&#8217;t, he said. Let it go. Try something different. You won&#8217;t find what works if you get stuck in what doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone fails from time to time. Everyone gets it wrong now and then. Not everyone can let it go. The trick is not to take it personally. It&#8217;s just life. I would rather wrong answers didn&#8217;t become chains around my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted from a Facebook memory&#8230; My first grade teacher wrote in my record that Bruce &#8220;&#8230;takes excessive interest in personal art projects.&#8221; Years later my high school art teacher, Frank Moran, one of the best teachers a kid could ever have, approved when he saw me taking apart a project I&#8217;d spent days working on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-art-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12984,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}