{"id":76,"date":"2012-01-23T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/01\/23\/crafting-liberation-confessions-of-an-unredeemable-direction-follower\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:21:41","slug":"crafting-liberation-confessions-of-an-unredeemable-direction-follower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/01\/crafting-liberation-confessions-of-an-unredeemable-direction-follower\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Liberation: Confessions of an Unredeemable Direction-Follower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still guest blogging at Man Made DIY this week; please feel free to check my latest post out and, if you feel so moved, chime in.  Thanks!<br \/>\n<a title=\"Crafting Liberation: Confessions of an Unredeemable Direction-Follower -- Man Made DIY | Crafts for Men -- Keywords: recipe, talk, cooking, craft\" href=\"http:\/\/manmadediy.com\/davideriknelson\/posts\/1571-crafting-liberation-confessions-of-an-unredeemable-direction-follower\">Crafting Liberation: Confessions of an Unredeemable Direction-Follower &#8212; Man Made DIY | Crafts for Men &#8212; Keywords: recipe, talk, cooking, craft<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=blkq>I\u2019m an unredeemable direction-follower.  As a boy, I\u2019d account for the meniscus when measuring water to make Ramen noodles.  As a man, I was relentlessly mocked by my wife for my stove-side devotion to the succinct instructions of Mark Bittman . . . . This, obviously, is the pathology of a man terrified of failure&#8211;that I ever wrote anything at all, let alone an entire damn book (let alone several!) is itself a crippled miracle.  While DIY is obviously empowering&#8211;<I>My stove was broken, now it\u2019s fixed; I did that!<\/I>&#8211;having instructions in hand can really quickly shackle us, as it\u2019s so easy to mistake <I>a good way<\/I> of doing X for <I>the only way<\/I> to do X. . . .<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still guest blogging at Man Made DIY this week; please feel free to check my latest post out and, if you feel so moved, chime in. Thanks! Crafting Liberation: Confessions of an Unredeemable Direction-Follower &#8212; Man Made DIY | Crafts for Men &#8212; Keywords: recipe, talk, cooking, craft I\u2019m an unredeemable direction-follower. As a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/01\/crafting-liberation-confessions-of-an-unredeemable-direction-follower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crafting Liberation: Confessions of an Unredeemable Direction-Follower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}