{"id":1627,"date":"2011-01-09T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2012-07-21T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:45:36","slug":"time-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/time-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Well Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1_StillConnected\" src=\"http:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/1_StillConnected-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2010, a client asked me to incorporate a Norman Rockwell image into a book cover design. In order to use the image, I was asked to secure the rights and that required me getting approval directly from Norman Rockwell\u2019s grandson. So began the nerve-wracking process of writing Mr. Rockwell, and then re-reading my email about fifty thousand times before hitting send. Mr. Rockwell responded, but alas, with more questions for me. Once again writing a simple email was followed by endless proofreading before sending. Our correspondence went back and forth for weeks until at last, Mr. Rockwell\u2019s approval arrived. All the time I spent double-checking my emails actually paid off!<\/p>\n<p>You may think that my obsessive playing of Scrabble and Words with Friends is a waste of time. And I would probably agree! But one evening while working on the final version of a gala invitation, I found a word. Sure it was in small print and on the back panel, but it was apparent to those of us distracted by incorrect spelling. The word was: \u201cadultehood.\u201d Immediately, I alerted the client, removed the troublesome \u2018e,\u2019 and after the crisis was resolved, even won my Words With Friends game.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week I was hired by a new client to design a small project due in 24-hours. Sleep, exercise, and socializing were sacrificed in order to meet the deadline. When my samples were presented, all of them were rejected in favor of a design done by a family member of the client. Okay. I\u2019m still trying to figure out how those frantic 24-hours were time well spent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the senseless shooting in Arizona this weekend was a tragic reminder that truly no time is wasted because we are so lucky simply to have it at all.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1627\" data-postid=\"1627\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1627 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2010, a client asked me to incorporate a Norman Rockwell image into a book cover design. In order to use the image, I was asked to secure the rights and that required me getting approval directly from Norman Rockwell\u2019s grandson. So began the nerve-wracking process of writing Mr. Rockwell, and then re-reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liliandben.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}