{"id":148,"date":"2008-06-04T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-06-04T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:14:47","slug":"fun-client-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/04\/fun-client-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Client Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week seems to be Have Fun at Work Week here at Figart Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>Got a couple of clients who have a quirky sense of humor.\u00a0 God, it I love it when that happens.<\/p>\n<p>Being a freelance writer is funny.\u00a0 Sometimes you get these really interesting projects.\u00a0 If you have a particular hobby horse, you sometimes get paid to ride it.\u00a0 I always like that.\u00a0 All my projects this week are stuff I actually have a real interest in.\u00a0 This does happen more often than not, because if you&#8217;re really into something, your proposals start sounding all excited.\u00a0 And let&#8217;s be frank, if you&#8217;re hiring a writer, having one that&#8217;s enthusiastic about your topic is always nice.\u00a0 But sometimes you get some weird, or boring stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have a project where when you start researching it starts to scare the living bajesus out of you.\u00a0 I had one not too long ago.\u00a0 It was <em>Friday<\/em>, <em>Press Enter<\/em>, <em>The Happiness Patrol <\/em> and <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> all rolled into one.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve uncurled from my little ball, though.<\/p>\n<p>But not this week, thank goodness.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a couple of ones where I&#8217;ve rushed home from the gym with an <em>Oh boy!\u00a0 I get to noodle about something I like and get <strong>paid<\/strong> for it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why, yes, I do love my job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week seems to be Have Fun at Work Week here at Figart Consulting. Got a couple of clients who have a quirky sense of humor.\u00a0 God, it I love it when that happens. Being a freelance writer is funny.\u00a0 Sometimes you get these really interesting projects.\u00a0 If you have a particular hobby horse, you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/04\/fun-client-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun Client Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}