{"id":264,"date":"2009-11-30T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/my-biggest-fan\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T15:41:30","slug":"my-biggest-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/my-biggest-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"My Biggest Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; width: 310px; display: block; float: right;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gimp-utility-window-hint.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; border: medium none;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cf\/Gimp-2.6.0.png\/800px-Gimp-2.6.0.png\" alt=\"Screenshot illustrating the new utility window...\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gimp-utility-window-hint.png\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think it is easy to say that one of my biggest fans is my son Stephen. I am learning how to use my new (to me) <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wacom\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wacom.com\/\">Wacom Bamboo<\/a> and it is going slow. I am not a very good drawer under the best of circumstances and learning to draw on something other than paper has taken my \u201cskills\u201d and marginalized them even more.<\/p>\n<p>However, every time I start drawing a picture, Stephen comes over to me and tells me that it is awesome and he wishes how he could draw like me. I am really honored that he likes it but more often than not, I restart <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"GIMP\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a> and mutter \u201cSorry son, but it sucks.\u201d Each and every time.<\/p>\n<p>I need to remember that he watches everything I do because I notice that he has been throwing away unfinished drawings because he is totally dissatisfied with how they look. I wonder how much of that is because he is trying to improve and how much of that is because he is imitating me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/6bc21ed6-915e-44ab-b0a3-3ac62554bda8\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=6bc21ed6-915e-44ab-b0a3-3ac62554bda8\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia I think it is easy to say that one of my biggest fans is my son Stephen. I am learning how to use my new (to me) Wacom Bamboo and it is going slow. I am not a very good drawer under the best of circumstances and learning to draw on something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,12],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-family","tag-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-4g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}