{"id":1120,"date":"2026-05-30T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:18:37","slug":"reach-for-the-ceiling-david-moldawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/reach-for-the-ceiling-david-moldawer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReach for the ceiling\u201d &#8211; David Moldawer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, I can\u2019t tell the difference between a top violinist and your average pro despite years of classical music, both as listener and performer. I don\u2019t have the ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As human beings, we\u2019re each gifted in different ways. To be an artist is to develop the necessary skills to express our unique gifts, whatever they are. If you find yourself unmotivated or unable to improve at writing, painting, or any other form of creative expression, chances are you weren\u2019t born with the discrimination that would make additional efforts pay off. How would you even know you were getting better? Sure, you may recognize on some level that someone else\u2019s work is better than yours, but if you can\u2019t articulate why, take it as a sign\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavengame.com\/p\/reach-for-the-ceiling\">https:\/\/www.mavengame.com\/p\/reach-for-the-ceiling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMeanwhile, I can\u2019t tell the difference between a top violinist and your average pro despite years of classical music, both as listener and performer. I don\u2019t have the ear. As human beings, we\u2019re each gifted in different ways. To be an artist is to develop the necessary skills to express our unique gifts, whatever they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}