{"id":50,"date":"2023-03-10T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:32:58","slug":"refilling-my-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/refilling-my-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Refilling My Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In chemistry, there is something called activation energy, in which a certain amount of energy is required to begin a chemical reaction. Sometimes, when the activation energy is high, the probability of the reaction occurring is low, and a catalyst may be required to facilitate the reaction occurring to create something new. Recently, I have felt a high level of activation energy required to create new works of art; or in plain terms, I am losing my habit and have art block. I am feeling low on ink, and I have been looking at drawings friends are making, as I live vicariously through their creativity. One of my catalysts is to empty my schedule and to create space to get bored so that my fingers start stirring so much I cannot help but start drawing something new. But also, I think it&#8217;s time to join a new art activity group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chemistry, there is something called activation energy, in which a certain amount of energy is required to begin a chemical reaction. Sometimes, when the activation energy is high, the probability of the reaction occurring is low, and a catalyst may be required to facilitate the reaction occurring to create something new. Recently, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}