{"id":492,"date":"2012-07-22T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2012-07-19T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:07:50","slug":"no-this-is-not-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/no-this-is-not-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Categorizing Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people ask me what I do, I say &#8220;I create.&#8221; There really is no other way to explain succinctly all the things I do and to make someone understand that the things I make are not side projects. I live, breath and dream creativity. Even when I worked a 9-5 job, it was so I could make enough money to buy art supplies. But even my jobs were creative on some level. I have also had to explain that making art from what is considered a craft material does not make what I do a hobby way too many times. 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