{"id":15998,"date":"2021-09-15T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15998"},"modified":"2021-09-16T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:20:33","slug":"how-do-i-get-past-the-guilt-of-making-art-when-i-should-be-making-money%f0%9f%98%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/09\/15\/how-do-i-get-past-the-guilt-of-making-art-when-i-should-be-making-money%f0%9f%98%90\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I get past the guilt of making art when I should be making money??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AW09152021-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AW09152021-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"How do I get past the guilt of making art when I should be making money??\" class=\"wp-image-16000\" width=\"174\" height=\"163\"\/><\/a><figcaption><br>How do I get past the guilt of making art when I should be making money??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens if you remove the word &#8220;should&#8221;? If it&#8217;s making you feel guilty about something you enjoy, it&#8217;s not doing you any favors. Do you have enough money to take care of your needs? Once you do, you are allowed to choose what you value more. Art has been part of human culture for as long as there have been humans&#8211;these paintings on cave walls are 20,000 years old. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-lascaux\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-lascaux<\/a> Compared to that, money was invented an eyeblink ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens if you remove the word &#8220;should&#8221;? If it&#8217;s making you feel guilty about something you enjoy, it&#8217;s not doing you any favors. Do you have enough money to take care of your needs? Once you do, you are allowed to choose what you value more. Art has been part of human culture for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/09\/15\/how-do-i-get-past-the-guilt-of-making-art-when-i-should-be-making-money%f0%9f%98%90\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I get past the guilt of making art when I should be making money??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16017,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions\/16017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}