{"id":2057,"date":"2012-12-23T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2012-12-23T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T21:02:17","slug":"yes-its-all-worth-the-aggravation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/yes-its-all-worth-the-aggravation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It&#8217;s All Worth the Aggravation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have somehow managed to avoid most of the trials and tribulations that are usually a part of the holiday season. Not that there aren&#8217;t other non-holiday tribulations putting up hurdles before me but I am very grateful for being an artist and for being able to make, with tons of love and caring, gifts for the people on my list. I am also so grateful for the internet &#8230; for letting me shop from home for all those things on my list that just can&#8217;t&#8211;for some silly reason&#8211;be made from polymer clay!<\/p>\n<p>But I do see the hectic lines in the face of my friends and family. I&#8217;m sure many of you have or are having those kind of moments. So here is a holiday thought for you. Just remember why you go through all you go through during the holiday season. And who benefits from all you do.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/yes-its-all-worth-the-aggravation\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"slide_268220_1850861_free (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?fit=430%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2058\" alt=\"slide_268220_1850861_free (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?resize=554%2C370\" width=\"554\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slide_268220_1850861_free-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have somehow managed to avoid most of the trials and tribulations that are usually a part of the holiday season. Not that there aren&#8217;t other non-holiday tribulations putting up hurdles before me but I am very grateful for being an artist and for being able to make, with tons of love and caring, gifts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[620,448,12,11,16],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings","tag-donald-westlake","tag-holidays","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-xb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}