{"id":480,"date":"2022-03-15T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/?p=480"},"modified":"2022-04-30T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T10:30:26","slug":"going-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/going-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Small and Stay At Home."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-482\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220227_165154.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I think one reason that I don&#8217;t really think of myself as an artist anymore is that I just don&#8217;t have time to do anything.  Single dad with 2 teens(ish), various family medical conditions to help manage, job to hold down&#8230;  There is just not much time to consistently devote to getting something to a level that I&#8217;m happy to show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I discovered tiny pottery and Microwave kilns. With my current skillset, I can set up, throw and clear up in an hour, and I&#8217;m getting some lovely results.  Lots of explosions as well, but it&#8217;s all great fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a bit of pottery on my art foundation, slip casting, raku (in an old bin), and slab building, but no throwing; so I have nothing to build on, and I&#8217;m making it all up with the help of youtube videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220407_215553.jpg 1931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I think one reason that I don&#8217;t really think of myself as an artist anymore is that I just don&#8217;t have time to do anything. Single dad with 2 teens(ish), various family medical conditions to help manage, job to hold down&#8230; There is just not much time to consistently devote to getting something to a level that I&#8217;m happy to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/going-small\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pottery","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fluster.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}