{"id":2105,"date":"2021-10-29T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:13:38","slug":"the-virus-that-sparked-a-hidden-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/the-virus-that-sparked-a-hidden-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virus that Sparked a Hidden Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pexels-rfstudio-3817657-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"photo of woman painting on white canvas with talent\" class=\"wp-image-2133\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\"\/><figcaption>Photo by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@rethaferguson?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">RF._.studio<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/photo-of-woman-drawing-on-white-canvass-3817657\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cameron-Final-A.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you ever go back to teaching yourself the bass? Are you still waiting to give that shelf you started painting three years ago &#8220;just one more coat of paint&#8221;? Amongst the tragedy, last year&#8217;s pandemic limited a lot of people on what they could do. But for some, they were able to dive into talent, hobbies, and projects that they hadn&#8217;t been able to before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this podcast, listen as MMJ Cameron Hairston goes over the space for creative talent and motivation during the pandemic, with <a href=\"https:\/\/3arts.org\/artist\/mashaun-hendricks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mashaun Hendricks <\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traphousechicago.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRAP House Chicago<\/a>) and writer\/creative Taunja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five Multimedia Journalists created podcasts in response to the theme of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Revival\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: A response to what the nation looks like after more than a year of being in this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/index.php\/category\/the-revival-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to follow the next story in our Revival Issue. For more podcasts, check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mildsauce.org\/index.php\/category\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Podcasts archive.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"small\">How did you keep up motivation throughout the pandemic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,280],"tags":[46,291,290,288,278,292,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-2105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-podcast","8":"category-the-revival-issue","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-hendricks","11":"tag-mashaun","12":"tag-motivation","13":"tag-revival","14":"tag-talent","15":"tag-traphouse"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Virus that Sparked a Hidden Talent - 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