{"id":24195,"date":"2023-11-09T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24195"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:14:24","slug":"otm-39-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/11\/09\/otm-39-comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"OTM #39: Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"958\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/otm39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24196\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6073825503355705;width:727px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/otm39.png 958w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/otm39-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/otm39-768x478.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go outside your comfort zone. Take me, for example, self-proclaimed nerd and introvert \u2014 the last place I would expect to see myself is Rick&#8217;s, but there I was, dancing alongside my friends. The first five to ten minutes there were uncomfortable (see my above artistic rendition), but the minute I let go of the idea that people were looking at me, I started to have fun. I started to care less, giving into the early-2010s-pop remixes monopolizing my senses. Sometimes you just have to give into the music; life is too short and stressful as is. This is not my endorsement of Rick&#8217;s, as my opinion is still mixed, but it is to say this: at the very least, maybe consider dancing in your room with your headphones. There&#8217;s an inherently silly and unserious feeling to it, but that&#8217;s what makes it fun. Perhaps it&#8217;s &#8220;healing your inner child,&#8221; or whatever those self-help guides online say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go outside your comfort zone. Take me, for example, self-proclaimed nerd and introvert \u2014 the last place I would expect to see myself is Rick&#8217;s, but there I was, dancing alongside my friends. The first five to ten minutes there were uncomfortable (see my above artistic rendition), but the minute I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2250,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[944,1381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24195\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}