{"id":816,"date":"2011-10-13T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-hell-of-freelancing-or-is-it-purgatory.html"},"modified":"2011-10-13T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T21:58:00","slug":"the-hell-of-freelancing-or-is-it-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-hell-of-freelancing-or-is-it-purgatory.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hell of Freelancing &#8211; or is it Purgatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR some people, going it alone is a blast, and lucrative as well. Advocates of the &#8220;free agent nation&#8221; see it casual, flexible, energetic &#8212; a way to tap into your real talent and potential.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-meJlqm_gitk\/Tpr9uIabmAI\/AAAAAAAABLk\/ypFhPigwwCI\/s1600\/Reggie_Jackson_bats_at_Yankee_Stadium.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-meJlqm_gitk\/Tpr9uIabmAI\/AAAAAAAABLk\/ypFhPigwwCI\/s1600\/Reggie_Jackson_bats_at_Yankee_Stadium.jpg\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free agent Reggie Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>They say we&#8217;ve moved beyond the stodgy, gray-flannel-suited Organization Man of mid-century, who was all about conformity and corporate loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>But for many writers, artists, musicians and so on, dealing with a collapsed economy and a shifting culture driven by the Internet, it&#8217;s not much fun. These stories tend not to get told.<\/p>\n<p>The second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/10\/13\/why_branding_wont_save_the_creative_class\/\">piece<\/a> of my Salon series on the fate of the creative class is up. Please check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR some people, going it alone is a blast, and lucrative as well. Advocates of the &#8220;free agent nation&#8221; see it casual, flexible, energetic &#8212; a way to tap into your real talent and potential. Free agent Reggie Jackson They say we&#8217;ve moved beyond the stodgy, gray-flannel-suited Organization Man of mid-century, who was all about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-downturn","8":"category-literary","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}