{"id":702,"date":"2021-03-12T19:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-03-12T19:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:16:23","slug":"year-of-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2021\/03\/12\/year-of-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The banner photo for this piece is from a year ago, when it was officially announced we&#8217;d be staying at home, the kids would stop going to school and we were all uncertain as to what the future might bring; so we neighbors  all gathered for an impromptu beers and hang out session,  enjoying just one last hang out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(it wasn&#8217;t until I previewed it that I realized the image was posting upside down, but I thought I&#8217;d leave it as a way of illustrating what this past year has been like.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virtual Reality (VR) Mini-Talks\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6_8Q-3KEcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the last of a crazy season of pitches, presentations and lectures, I&#8217;m thrilled to get a small amount of exposure across the pond, and it was a lot of fun. I credit my 11th grade Speech &amp; Presentations teacher Mrs. Collins for my ability to keep my presentations on focus, clear and (hopefully) with a minimum of filler words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also the first time I got paid for a speaking gig &#8211; could totally get behind having money thrown at me for spouting off to a captive audience.  I think I&#8217;d do a monologue style like Spalding Gray:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swimming to Cambodia - The Soldier on the Train (Spalding Gray)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/udDVrPvyQF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering I&#8217;m probably not the best example case for how to be a solo dev, I think I could get more traction by telling amusing anecdotes about having a neurotic housecat or that time my kid projectile $#!+ on the curtains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or I could tell of the year of the pandemic; how I was set to be interviewed on the radio, or about to show my demo to the largest audience yet at the Cleveland Int&#8217;l Film Festival &#8211; and how having those things yanked away because of lockdowns just wrecked me. I went months not looking at my game, or doing anything other than doomscrolling social media and drinking more than I should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until September and getting into the Oculus launch Pad program that got me turned around and focused again, and I&#8217;ve been going at a decent clip since. Now that the vax is right around the corner and the kids are going back to school, maybe I can get back to cranking on my game with a little more regularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe spend more time with the wife who is working from home and taking more walks around the neighborhood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banner photo for this piece is from a year ago, when it was officially announced we&#8217;d be staying at home, the kids would stop going to school and we were all uncertain as to what the future might bring; so we neighbors all gathered for an impromptu beers and hang out session, enjoying just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2021\/03\/12\/year-of-quarantine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Year of quarantine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}