{"id":3426,"date":"2016-01-26T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2016-01-26T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T17:21:08","slug":"passion-means-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/26\/passion-means-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion means suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Danielewski:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(as quoted by seemingly tortured animator Phil Tippett in <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/24\/lets-drop-acid-animate-star-wars\/\">the doc<\/a>\u00a0mentioned the other day) Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/99u.com\/videos\/50938\/kelly-mcgonigal-how-to-turn-stress-into-an-advantage\">stress can be an advantage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long been fond of quoting Cake\u2019s The Distance with regard to my career &amp; sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/dreams_un_deferred.html\">quixotic commitment to thankless missions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sun has gone down and the moon has come up<br \/>And long ago somebody left with the cup<br \/>But he&#8217;s driving and striving and hugging the turns<br \/>And thinking of someone for whom he still burns<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going the distance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Danielewski: Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. (as quoted by seemingly tortured animator Phil Tippett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}