{"id":18,"date":"2005-04-22T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=15"},"modified":"2005-04-22T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T16:50:20","slug":"the-allure-of-free-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2005\/04\/22\/the-allure-of-free-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"the allure of free kits&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Ok\u2026.  So I love digital scrapbooking.  I got started because I wanted to preserve the memories of my ds4 childhood, but all my photos are digital.  It made more sense, and costs less to scrap digitally.  Lately, it seems almost everyone is a member of a design team somewhere.  I\u2019d love to be a DTM for one or two of my favorite sites\u2026 I mean, DTMs get free kits to work with!  There is a downside though.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">DTMs are often required to do 4 or more kits a month, sometimes a week!  I barely get three layouts done a month, and there are months when I have a creative dry spell, and just can\u2019t create for anything!  Add to that when I feel \u201cpressured\u201d to do something, it hampers my creativity, and adds stress to my life.  As a DTM you are supposed to be using the free kits as a way of promoting the website you work for, kind of a subtle advertising ploy.  DTMs are also often expected to be active in forums, and run challenges, and all that jazz.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">As much as I would love the free kits, I just don\u2019t have the time to deal with all that pressure.  Besides, I have sooo many kits that I have paid money for, that I haven\u2019t managed to use yet.  If I become a DTM, I won\u2019t get to use my purchased kits because I will feel so pressured to fulfill the requirements of being a DTM, that I won\u2019t get around to the kits I\u2019ve bought!  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">It is still very tempting to see all those DTM calls.  <\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok\u2026. So I love digital scrapbooking. I got started because I wanted to preserve the memories of my ds4 childhood, but all my photos are digital. It made more sense, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-randomness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}