{"id":36,"date":"2009-06-15T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-06-15T22:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:37:49","slug":"hobby-vs-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/hobby-vs-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby vs. Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling with some colleagues for a good little while, and only recently did I realize the possible source of my frustration.  Talking with a good friend of mine, it dawned on me that while music may be a passion for me, it&#8217;s only a hobby for some others.  This begs the question: can passion and hobby be reconciled?<\/p>\n<p>Music is something I can&#8217;t shut off.  Even if I&#8217;m not completely immersed in a particular project, my mind is still wrapped around music (in general) 24\/7.  I&#8217;m constantly thinking of <em>something<\/em>, be it phrasing, concepts, methods, approaches, musical ideas, etc.  Generally, this doesn&#8217;t &#8211; and shouldn&#8217;t &#8211; make any difference to someone who considers music a hobby, only approaching their instrument or musically creative mind a few times each week.  (There is of course nothing wrong with either; one of no better or worse than the other.)  However, when individuals from each of these camps <em>collaborate<\/em>, is it as productive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling with some colleagues for a good little while, and only recently did I realize the possible source of my frustration. Talking with a good friend of mine, it dawned on me that while music may be a passion for me, it&#8217;s only a hobby for some others. This begs the question: can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}