{"id":709,"date":"2006-03-01T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2006-03-01T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T19:44:00","slug":"no-im-not-bitter-why-do-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"No, I&#8217;m Not Bitter, Why Do You Ask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal has an article about the burgeoning union between media &#038; creative (in ad agencies), two departments long thought to be like lions &amp; hyenas: mortal enemies.<\/p>\n<p>What-f-n-ever. My only regret is that I didn&#8217;t start my own business doing this hybridization when things turned for the worse a few years ago, but hindsight is 20\/20&#8230;. At the Old Place, I knew every person in the creative department. And suffered weekly the question, &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you in creative? WHY are you in media?&#8221; Or, from She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named-But-Spit-Upon, &#8220;You&#8217;re TOO creative.&#8221; (I always enjoyed the department meetings where we were challenged to be more creative, but like a sick mo-fo family, you will be beaten later if you actually do it. Hello, Threatened! How ya doin&#8217;?)<\/p>\n<p>Well, because I&#8217;m a sensitive beyotch who studied PRINTMAKING and that&#8217;s not a skill used a whole lot in a graphic-design based universe, and yes, I can be a pretty good writer, and even came up with some excellent stuff, but no, I still don&#8217;t like criticism &#038; don&#8217;t know how to divest myself from my written words, I ended up in media. And I&#8217;m pretty good at it, despite VoldeJanemort&#8217;s opinion. And, I&#8217;m super creative. Crazy creative. The idea is to be crazy, because in madness, you find brilliance once in a while, where someone&#8217;s willing to take a risk, do something novel, get yourself noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d link to the WSJ article, but it requires you to pay for it.  And I spit out my bitterness now, instead of swallowing it. Because loving your job is still the best revenge! MMMMmmm. Revenge. So tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal has an article about the burgeoning union between media &#038; creative (in ad agencies), two departments long thought to be like lions &amp; hyenas: mortal enemies. What-f-n-ever. My only regret is that I didn&#8217;t start my own business doing this hybridization when things turned for the worse a few years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}