{"id":357,"date":"2010-12-02T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-12-02T23:45:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T23:45:19","slug":"where-do-good-ideas-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Where do good ideas come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a new reader here, you might wonder why I&#8217;m not posting here as regularly as I used to.\u00a0 There are several reasons.\u00a0 First, I&#8217;ve just finished my first term of full-time teaching, and I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time working on ideas with the students in my seminars.\u00a0 Second, and perhaps because of this, I&#8217;m feeling like a lot of my ideas are wearing out.\u00a0 Rereading posts from a few years ago, I recognize shapes of big ideas that are still sailing through my consciousness.\u00a0 I still think they&#8217;re good.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t know that I have all that many new ones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering this for years:\u00a0 do we only get one (or two) really good, big ideas in our lives?\u00a0 Where do they come from?\u00a0 What do you do when your ideas run out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a new reader here, you might wonder why I&#8217;m not posting here as regularly as I used to.\u00a0 There are several reasons.\u00a0 First, I&#8217;ve just finished my first term of full-time teaching, and I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time working on ideas with the students in my seminars.\u00a0 Second, and perhaps because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualitative-research","category-the-unexamined-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}