{"id":3043,"date":"2016-02-07T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2016-02-07T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:09:13","slug":"chasing-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/02\/07\/chasing-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019re just sitting there when the idea pops in your head. It\u2019s a great idea. Maybe you hit the wall when writing a paper and this idea could get you going again. Maybe it\u2019s greatest invention of mankind. Maybe it\u2019s the perfect line to use on that girl you see in Diversions all the time when you ask her out. Whatever it may be, it\u2019s great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then you get distracted and lose it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was it again? It was something like\u2026 I mean, it was like\u2026 Wait! I had to do something with\u2026 No, that not it. It definitely wasn\u2019t \u201cEvery student should be given a corgi when they first step onto campus\u201d. Although that is a good idea, write that down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve all been here, having some of our greatest ideas just out of reach. What can you do? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seriously, what can you do? I have no idea. Like, I had the greatest idea for a post for this blog and I lost it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least it wasn\u2019t all bad. I got this post out of it. Although it is mostly rambling&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, what was that idea\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re just sitting there when the idea pops in your head. It\u2019s a great idea. Maybe you hit the wall when writing a paper and this idea could get you going again. Maybe it\u2019s greatest invention of mankind. Maybe it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/02\/07\/chasing-ideas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}