{"id":476,"date":"2010-08-24T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=476"},"modified":"2010-08-24T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:09:56","slug":"the-importance-of-taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2010\/08\/24\/the-importance-of-taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"the importance of taking a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little while since I posted anything here. \u00a0At first, it was because my attention was focused elsewhere. \u00a0Then, I started to appreciate the break.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, armed with a relatively new 50mm lens, I brought my camera with me every day of the month, making a point of taking photos around town during my daily walks to and from work or while taking the dog out for a hike. \u00a0This exercise culminated with a rather warm Sunday Carnaval celebration, just around the corner from my house.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside all of this, I had a new project at work that required a lot of my attention. \u00a0It was in the early phases of a new initiative that required a lot of creative thinking and I found that I didn&#8217;t have a lot of that energy left walking out of work.<\/p>\n<p>So it was in June when I decided to do nothing with those images, and not post to this site. \u00a0I focused all of my creative energy on work.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime last month, I wrapped my head around the items at work and started putting some energy towards processing the images from May. \u00a0Towards the end of the July I took the camera out for the first time to take some photos of the now shuttered Transbay Terminal here in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>And today I&#8217;m back writing here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get around to uploading photos from May sometime, but I&#8217;m currently spending time going through some of the photos from Africa and South America, looking to make some black &amp; white images.<\/p>\n<p>The next few months promise to be pretty busy, in a good way. \u00a0I should have a few things to post.<\/p>\n<p>But I did appreciate the break, and the perspective it provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little while since I posted anything here. \u00a0At first, it was because my attention was focused elsewhere. \u00a0Then, I started to appreciate the break. Back in May, armed with a relatively new 50mm lens, I brought my camera with me every day of the month, making a point of taking photos around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2010\/08\/24\/the-importance-of-taking-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the importance of taking a break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-living","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}