{"id":86,"date":"2009-04-15T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/vote-of-confidence\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:02:27","slug":"vote-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/vote-of-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"(Vote of) Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/images\/090415_refrain_wff_laurels.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like to think I&#8217;m the type of person who isn&#8217;t swayed by public opinion. I don&#8217;t really care what others think, or say. And for the most part I can procure hard evidence to this effect; my wardrobe for example&#8230; I am none the less aware that in squeezing and clawing my way up the echelon of the entertainment business that the approval of others &#8211; strangers in particular &#8211; can be quite validating.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess that&#8217;s the business isn&#8217;t it? Sure, sure, art for art&#8217;s sake sounds great over wine and cheese and bullshit but filmmakers do what they do to have their films seen don&#8217;t they? The approval of others &#8211; of strangers &#8211; is a pretty important part of the package.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not recommending that you hang on the whims and opinions of the masses or even the select few. But sometimes I think it&#8217;s alright to just enjoy a little vote of confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think I&#8217;m the type of person who isn&#8217;t swayed by public opinion. I don&#8217;t really care what others think, or say. And for the most part I can procure hard evidence to this effect; my wardrobe for example&#8230; I am none the less aware that in squeezing and clawing my way up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-refrain","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}