{"id":819,"date":"2016-01-05T03:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2016-01-05T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T07:46:29","slug":"metahobbyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/metahobbyism\/","title":{"rendered":"Metahobbyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a bit of an organizing kick lately, the source of which is a mystery, but the net effect of which I&#8217;m very happy with. As I sort things into labeled bins and ask myself if I will ever use something again or how much it costs to replace it, the number of hobbies I&#8217;ve found evidence of keeps adding up. I am starting to think that my main hobby is trying new hobbies!<\/p>\n<p>Here are all of the activities I have come across, in no particular order. \u00a0Some of these\u00a0I&#8217;ve spent mere hours on, others have entailed\u00a0thousands of hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collectible card gaming<\/li>\n<li>Furniture making<\/li>\n<li>Paper making<\/li>\n<li>Cooking<\/li>\n<li>Board gaming<\/li>\n<li>Miniatures gaming<\/li>\n<li>Computer building<\/li>\n<li>Barbeque\/Smoking<\/li>\n<li>Novel writing<\/li>\n<li>Blacksmithing<\/li>\n<li>General photography<\/li>\n<li>Macro photography<\/li>\n<li>Portrait photography<\/li>\n<li>Camping<\/li>\n<li>Wood carving<\/li>\n<li>Wood turning<\/li>\n<li>Home theater<\/li>\n<li>Programming<\/li>\n<li>DIY\/House Renovation<\/li>\n<li>Pen making<\/li>\n<li>Miniatures painting<\/li>\n<li>Model scenery construction<\/li>\n<li>Paper crafts<\/li>\n<li>Electronics\/Soldering<\/li>\n<li>Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>Piano<\/li>\n<li>Harmonica<\/li>\n<li>Saxophone<\/li>\n<li>Beer brewing<\/li>\n<li>Baseball<\/li>\n<li>Softball<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy sports<\/li>\n<li>Reading<\/li>\n<li>Gardening<\/li>\n<li>Exercise<\/li>\n<li>Home automation<\/li>\n<li>Wood burning<\/li>\n<li>Golf<\/li>\n<li>Poker<\/li>\n<li>UX Design<\/li>\n<li>Freshwater aquariums<\/li>\n<li>Game design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a bit of an organizing kick lately, and as I sort things into labeled bins the number of hobbies I&#8217;ve found evidence of keeps adding up. I am starting to think that my main hobby is trying new hobbies!<\/p>\n<p>Here are all of the activities I have come across, in no particular order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,190,187],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-organizing","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}