{"id":8978,"date":"2020-03-08T20:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2020-03-08T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:13:39","slug":"adjusting-my-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8978","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting My Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7233-2020-03-8-20-17.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7233-2020-03-8-20-17.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI was to leave in in week for conference in Toronto about art quilting.  Due to COVID-19, the conference was cancelled,  <\/p>\n<p>I have been on the committee helping to plan the conference for more than a year.  I spent 6 months organizing lightning talks (20 slides &#8211; 20 seconds a slide &#8211; for quick 6 minute 40 second presentations).  I was excited for the time away and time to connect with my people.  <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bummed and frustrated and struggling to adjust.  I understand the decision to cancel and they are plotting to make the conference virtual which may be nifty, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me out of my house, out of my comfort zone or give me a much needed break from daily life.  I will eventually accept the situation (and just my sails), but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay to grieve for plans you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to see through.  Right?  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7235-2020-03-8-20-17.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7235-2020-03-8-20-17.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAdjust the sails (9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), quilted iron on transfers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was to leave in in week for conference in Toronto about art quilting. Due to COVID-19, the conference was cancelled, I have been on the committee helping to plan the conference for more than a year. I spent 6 months organizing lightning talks (20 slides &#8211; 20 seconds a slide &#8211; for quick 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}