{"id":22985,"date":"2025-07-05T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:37:55","slug":"my-birthday-gift-ditching-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/my-birthday-gift-ditching-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"My birthday gift: Ditching AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My family, having seen so many of my AI-powered image generations over the last 3 years, is just utterly inured to them. So, for my MiniMe&#8217;s 16th, I sketched up the patriotic little HO-scale engine we&#8217;re getting him, along with a cute large ground squirrel (to quote the Dude, &#8220;Nice marmot&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like this is my micro version of when the world revolted against too-perfect Instagram culture, swinging towards Snapchat &amp; stories, where &#8220;rough is real,&#8221; and flaws are a feature. In any case, my dude was happy as a clam\u2014and that&#8217;s all that matters to me.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For my son\u2019s birthday, I ditched AI and broke out my pen. Felt good to work without a net. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TJedYCPWMj\">pic.twitter.com\/TJedYCPWMj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1941159745580409076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family, having seen so many of my AI-powered image generations over the last 3 years, is just utterly inured to them. So, for my MiniMe&#8217;s 16th, I sketched up the patriotic little HO-scale engine we&#8217;re getting him, along with a cute large ground squirrel (to quote the Dude, &#8220;Nice marmot&#8221;). I feel like this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22986,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions\/22986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}