{"id":126,"date":"2019-11-07T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:24:12","slug":"freelance-articles-for-the-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Freelance articles for The Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have written two freelance articles for The Pulse, Chattanooga&#8217;s weekly paper, which focuses on feature type articles like events and local artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first article, which was published last Thursday, was about Chattanooga&#8217;s community gardens. The piece is titled, &#8220;Get Your Hands Dirty.&#8221; This article was pitched to the editor before I even moved out here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second article is about The Bonnie Potter, an artist who specializes in textured pottery. It is titled, &#8220;Clay and lace.&#8221; It was just published today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s great to have freelance work to fall back on while I have been job searching. I was able to freelance when we first moved to Houston as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These articles made me feel good about myself, and gave me a little bit of daily purpose. It is very hard to not have a job for a few weeks. Things get boring quickly! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read both articles here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattanoogapulse.com\/arts\/features\/clay-and-lace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?fit=840%2C589&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"&quot;Clay And Lace&quot; by Rebecca Hazen\n\nBonnie Scoggins, known artistically as The Bonnie Potter, has dozens of in-progress clay plates, mugs, and bowls drying on a shelf at her in-home studio in Red Bank. On another shelf are piles of doilies, ready to be imprinted into clay. Follow link to read more.\" class=\"wp-image-127\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?w=1374&amp;ssl=1 1374w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?resize=768%2C539&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?resize=1024%2C718&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.12.49-AM.png?resize=1200%2C842&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 85vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattanoogapulse.com\/citylife\/news\/get-your-hands-dirty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?fit=840%2C806&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"&quot;Get Your Hands Dirty&quot; by Rebecca Hazen\n\nCommunity gardens in Chattanooga help all types of communities. One garden helps the underserved. Another is a club providing teaching. Follow the link to read more.\" class=\"wp-image-130\" width=\"420\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?w=1286&amp;ssl=1 1286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?resize=768%2C737&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?resize=1024%2C983&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sceniccityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-07-at-10.18.59-AM.png?resize=1200%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 85vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written two freelance articles for The Pulse, Chattanooga&#8217;s weekly paper, which focuses on feature type articles like events and local artists. My first article, which was published last Thursday, was about Chattanooga&#8217;s community gardens. The piece is titled, &#8220;Get Your Hands Dirty.&#8221; This article was pitched to the editor before I even moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/?p=126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freelance articles for The Pulse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[132,8,129,130,131,133],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceniccityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}