{"id":1030,"date":"2022-05-21T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2022-05-21T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:25:00","slug":"sheilas-weekly-update-75-dealing-with-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/weekly-updates\/sheilas-weekly-update-75-dealing-with-the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila&#8217;s weekly update 75: Dealing with the &#8220;f&#8221; word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you feel about the &#8220;f&#8221; word? Failure, it&#8217;s hard isn&#8217;t it and we are so often our harshest critics. This week was a bit up and down for me. I know not getting accepted for things is part and parcel of being an artist. And I know that most decisions are totally subjective, and not a personal attack on me .Still, when you don&#8217;t get accepted it can be hard, and that&#8217;s when self doubt can creep in.  However, despite getting a couple of &#8220;thanks, but no thanks&#8221; this week I did find inspiration from an unexpected opportunity to hear the amazing Bernadine Evaristo talking about her life and work and her attitude to that &#8220;f&#8221; word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheila&#039;s weekly update 75: Dealing with the &quot;f&quot; word\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VL71HZ-4cR0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you feel about the &#8220;f&#8221; word? Failure, it&#8217;s hard isn&#8217;t it and we are so often our harshest critics. This week was a bit up and down for me. I know not getting accepted for things is part and parcel of being an artist. And I know that most decisions are totally subjective, and not a personal attack on me .Still, when you don&#8217;t get accepted it can be hard, and that&#8217;s when self doubt can creep in. However, despite getting a couple of &#8220;thanks, but no thanks&#8221; this week I did find inspiration from an unexpected opportunity to hear the amazing Bernadine Evaristo talking about her life and work and her attitude to that &#8220;f&#8221; word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26,42],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-updates","tag-contemporaryartist","tag-artistpractice","tag-artisttalking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}