{"id":3312,"date":"2021-07-06T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2021-09-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:00:00","slug":"its-been-a-tough-year-i-can-tell-from-the-commission-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/its-been-a-tough-year-i-can-tell-from-the-commission-work\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a tough year. I can tell from the commission work."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1725\" data-attachment-id=\"3313\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/its-been-a-tough-year-i-can-tell-from-the-commission-work\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1725\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-N950U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1622626270&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20210706-woman-in-the-arena\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-768x647.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210706-woman-in-the-arena-1536x1294.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Roman bookhand and sumi ink on watercolor paper. About 11&#8243; x 14&#8243;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been tough. Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s famous quotation, &#8220;The Man in the Arena&#8221; is really resonating these days. I recall only one commission to letter this quote in the past 30+ years. And yet I&#8217;ve gotten three requests for it in the past six months! This latest one was gender-adapted for a client who wished to give it to a woman. And that&#8217;s appropriate: in many ways, women, especially those with school-age children, have born the brunt of the past 15 months, in the arenas of employment, child care, and housework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been tough. Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s famous quotation, &#8220;The Man in the Arena&#8221; is really resonating these days. I recall only one commission to letter this quote in the past 30+ years. And yet I&#8217;ve gotten three requests for it in the past six months! This latest one was gender-adapted for a client who wished &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/its-been-a-tough-year-i-can-tell-from-the-commission-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s been a tough year. I can tell from the commission work.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","tag-roman-minuscules"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Rq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}