{"id":1197,"date":"2005-11-06T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T01:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/06\/creative-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:34","slug":"creative-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/06\/creative-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I participate in Art Everyday Month, I find myself very impressed with the work of other participants. Their ideas are inspired, and it sparks a desire to do something similar, only&#8230; anxiety clutches at me. I don&#8217;t want to be a copycat, to infringe on someone else&#8217;s work. I <em>know<\/em> there is nothing truly original in the world, but still, can I not be creative enough (or brave enough) to see what emerges on my own? I&#8217;m also struggling with the Critic. So far my efforts have been pretty satisfying to me, yet there is a fear I made a big splash and it will all be crap from now on. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I participate in Art Everyday Month, I find myself very impressed with the work of other participants. Their ideas are inspired, and it sparks a desire to do something similar, only&#8230; anxiety clutches at me. I don&#8217;t want to be a copycat, to infringe on someone else&#8217;s work. I know there is nothing truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12454,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}