{"id":32842,"date":"2014-09-16T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=32842"},"modified":"2017-05-11T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:43:03","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-joel-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-personalities-meet-joel-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Joel Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JoelVilla.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Villa | UncommonGoods\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JoelVilla.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JoelVilla-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><em>Joel Villa, UncommonGoods Area Operations Manager<\/em><\/center><strong>My hometown is\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nMore like a \u201chomestate.\u201d I grew up in a lot of small towns in Arizona, and a few in New Mexico, but I usually tell people I\u2019m from Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nCreativity: Fashion. Art. Music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite process in the UncommonGoods warehouse is\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nGift Box &#8211; It requires all the care and speed of every other area with less heavy-lifting (which I get a good dose of in Scanning &amp; Stacking, where I regularly work).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Describe your style&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nMy philosophy has always been: Fashion over function \u2013 you must look good always. Despite working in a physical, dirty job, I still enjoy dressing with eccentric, avant-garde, and eclectic panache. You never know when a Galliano or Wintour might pass you on the street or decide to tour the UG warehouse\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>The #1 most played song on my iPod is&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nI would imagine it\u2019s some Broadway musical powerhouse number, probably \u201cA New Life\u201d from Jekyll and Hyde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could throw the perfect party&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nIt would be some satirical affair, simply for a good laugh and photo-ops. I\u2019ve often discussed planning one called \u201cSad Hour,\u201d where table-for-one\u2019s are set up, and only sad, depressing Adele-esque songs are played, with a mandatory high society dress code; mingling is optional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could learn anything, it would be&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nIt seems simple enough if it weren\u2019t for my procrastination, but I\u2019ve always wanted to learn guitar and piano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you rather\u2026 wear the same outfit for a year, OR listen to no music for a year?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is no way I could go without music for a year. Wearing the same outfit for a year sounds like a fun and challenging project, involving how-to blogging, insta-tracking, accessorizing, and lots of creativity. I might just do it now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel may want to host a &#8220;Sad Hour&#8221; party, but his answers to these questions certainly make us happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":32851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1170,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57093,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32842\/revisions\/57093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}