{"id":4107,"date":"2010-08-19T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2010-08-19T00:21:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:21:34","slug":"wheres-my-focus-and-a-few-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s my focus? and a few butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately it seems I cannot get myself focused on doing any of my work personal artwork. I&#8217;m getting the business work done, but not my own work.\u00a0 I always get crabby and punchy when that happens, and I am currently quite a bit of both.\u00a0 It seems I can&#8217;t even get a blog post up.\u00a0 The deadline for Quilt National is looming, and it&#8217;s becoming very clear that I will not have anything finished to enter.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying not to beat myself up over it, yet I find myself beating myself up over it.\u00a0 Dumb, I know.\u00a0 Focus, focus.\u00a0 What happened to my focus?<\/p>\n<p>The only personal thing I&#8217;ve managed to do in the past 10 days was take some butterfly pictures.\u00a0 Generally by this time of year I have hundreds that I like.\u00a0 Not this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just a hand full.\u00a0 Here is the most recent handful:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4108\" title=\"butter-aug1-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one of those rare times that while focusing on one butterfly another came fluttering along and for a brief moment landed.\u00a0 Amazing I actually got this shot in focus before it quickly took off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4110\" title=\"butter-aug1-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4109\" title=\"butter-aug1-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4111\" title=\"butter-aug1-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-4.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/butter-aug1-4-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know, after a while they all start to look the same.\u00a0 Sometimes I find myself more intrigued with how the backgrounds look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately it seems I cannot get myself focused on doing any of my work personal artwork. I&#8217;m getting the business work done, but not my own work.\u00a0 I always get crabby and punchy when that happens, and I am currently quite a bit of both.\u00a0 It seems I can&#8217;t even get a blog post up.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal","category-photos-butterflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}