{"id":14064,"date":"2025-12-18T06:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:33:24","slug":"acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14064","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I get better now, why Vivian Maier didn&#8217;t show her photography to anyone, died alone and unknown, and her work was very nearly lost forever. She probably did show it to a few close people and when they shrugged it off she stopped showing it to anyone, but she couldn&#8217;t stop doing it because she was an artist and had that need.<\/p>\n<p>You wonder how much art has been lost to us. Mine will probably vanish after I&#8217;m gone. Not that I&#8217;ll know it. Every time I have reached out and got the shrug it&#8217;s felt like a knife to the gut, but you don&#8217;t ever say so because nobody wants to hear that. Eventually you just get beaten down. When it makes you stop creating altogether then you know you&#8217;re finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I get better now, why Vivian Maier didn&#8217;t show her photography to anyone, died alone and unknown, and her work was very nearly lost forever. She probably did show it to a few close people and when they shrugged it off she stopped showing it to anyone, but she couldn&#8217;t stop doing it [&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":[204],"class_list":["post-14064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-broken-heart-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064","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=14064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14065,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions\/14065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}